Year: 2014

New Zealand seafarers welcome New Zealand adopting Maritime Labour Convention

The Mar­itime Labour Con­ven­tion 2006 (MLC) is an inter­na­tion­al treaty adopt­ed by the Inter­na­tion­al Labour Organ­i­sa­tion and lays out min­i­mum rights for sea­far­ers and pro­motes good employ­ment prac­tices across the ship­ping indus­try.

Progress on Ports of Auckland agreement 

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says good progress has been made towards the set­tle­ment of a Col­lec­tive Employ­ment Agree­ment with Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed (POAL).

TPPA No Way – Nationwide rallies Saturday 8 November

On 8 Novem­ber 2014 Kiwis will kick­start the glob­al day of action against the TPPA. TPPA pos­es an enor­mous threat to NZ’s abil­i­ty to reg­u­late for itself, and gives for­eign investors and multi­na­tion­als new rights to con­trol our laws.

Tauranga port happy to take the money – but not happy to accept responsibility for workers

Com­ments from a Port of Tau­ran­ga man­ag­er about deaths and injuries in their port dur­ing a Radio New Zealand inter­view are unac­cept­able.

KPI to enter into regional federation

Indonesia’s Sea­far­er Union, Kesat­u­an Pelaut Indon­sia (KPI) has agreed to enter into a fed­er­a­tion with trans­port unions from Papua New Guinea, Aus­tralia and New Zealand after a for­ma­tive meet­ing in Kupang, Indone­sia.

Maritimes magazine Spring 2014 edition online now

The lat­est news and views for mar­itime work­ers

Maritime Union backs change of Government to put workers first

A change of Gov­ern­ment is required to deliv­er secure jobs and decent wages for New Zealand work­ers.

New Zealand maritime workers support PNG Coalition for Good Jobs

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is back­ing the Coali­tion for Good Jobs in PNG, made up of PNG unions cam­paign­ing keep pub­lic assets in pub­lic own­er­ship.

Get out and vote

Sea­far­ers Ben and Byron are vot­ing in the Gen­er­al Elec­tion in Sep­tem­ber 2014 and hav­ing their say about the Gov­ern­ment.

To find out more about how you can vote or get your work­mates, friends and fam­i­ly vot­ing, vis­it the union web­site www.getoutandvote.org.nz

Vega Auriga should be detained in New Zealand until problems fixed

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Nation­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood says that the ship Vega Auri­ga should be detained in a New Zealand port until it is deemed sea­wor­thy and crew issues have been fixed.