Day: 24 August 2009

Maritime Union joins rallies and digs deep in Telecom lines engineers dispute

The Mar­itime Union has upped its indus­tri­al and finan­cial sup­port of Tele­com lines engi­neers in their employ­ment dis­pute.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says a nation­al meet­ing of Union rep­re­sen­ta­tives from ports and ships this morn­ing vot­ed an ini­tial $10,000 to sup­port Tele­com lines engi­neers in their strug­gle for secure jobs.

Mar­itime Union mem­bers from New Zealand ships and the water­front joined ral­lies in Auck­land and Welling­ton this morn­ing along­side the lines engi­neers and oth­er sup­port­ers.