Year: 2012

Wharfies welcome Port undertakings to not contract out

Mem­bers of the Mar­itime Union were thrilled today that fol­low­ing a Set­tle­ment Con­fer­ence with the Employ­ment Court, Ports of Auck­land has seen sense and under­tak­en to halt its con­tract­ing process­es and re-enter col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing.

Union history in the spotlight

The inte­gral role the New Zealand Seamen’s Union played in New Zealand’s sea­far­ing indus­try comes under scruti­ny in the lat­est book from Can­ter­bury Uni­ver­si­ty Press.

Next step in attempt to protect secure jobs for Ports workers

The Mar­itime Union has today tak­en fur­ther legal steps in an effort to pro­tect secure jobs at Ports of Auck­land.

Ports management disregard for privacy deeply disturbing.

It is deeply dis­turb­ing that Ports of Auck­land is pre­pared to spread con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion from indi­vid­ual per­son­nel files as part of a PR cam­paign against their work­ers’ cam­paign for secure jobs, the CTU said today.

Mayor, Church mediation offers in Ports dispute warmly welcomed

The Mar­itime Union has warm­ly wel­comed an offer of medi­a­tion from the May­or of Auck­land Len Brown, and the Angli­can and Roman Catholic bish­ops, made pub­licly over the last two days.

Public rally backs secure work and sustainable Ports

Auck­lan­ders want­i­ng to make a stand against casu­al­i­sa­tion of work are being invit­ed to join Ports of Auck­land work­ers at a com­mu­ni­ty ral­ly this after­noon.

Simple question Maersk – were the navigation systems on or off?

The Mar­itime Union says it is not sat­is­fied with the response from ship­ping com­pa­ny Maer­sk over its nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems on two ships last week, and will be lay­ing a com­plaint with Mar­itime NZ.

Rena-style navigation interference at play in Ports dispute

Lessons from the Rena dis­as­ter clear­ly haven’t been learnt, as new evi­dence emerges of delib­er­ate attempts by ship­ping com­pa­ny Maer­sk to inter­fere with the nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems of two ships arriv­ing into Auck­land dur­ing the cur­rent Ports dis­pute. Mar­itime work­ers track­ing coastal ship­ping move­ments noticed that the Irenes Rem­e­dy and Maer­sk Aberdeen have in recent days […]

Port contracting out proposal unlawful — union

The Mar­itime Union says that the Ports of Auck­land deci­sion to dis­miss its work­force is unlaw­ful, and work­ers will chal­lenge it. The Mar­itime Union has asked the Employ­ment Court for a rul­ing on whether Port man­age­ment dis­miss­ing its work­force, while in nego­ti­a­tions over an employ­ment agree­ment for those jobs, is against the law, MUNZ Nation­al […]

Maritime Union offer to continue mediation

The Mar­itime Union believes that a small amount of progress was made at medi­a­tion with Ports of Auck­land man­age­ment over Thurs­day and Fri­day this week.