Year: 2014

Vale Brad Fletcher, MUNZ Lyttelton Branch President

The Mar­itime Union is great­ly sad­dened by the death of Mar­itime Union Lyt­tel­ton Branch Pres­i­dent Brad Fletch­er in a work­place acci­dent on Thurs­day 28 August 2014. Mar­itime Union Nation­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood says the death of Brad Fletch­er, a full-time work­er at the Port of Lyt­tel­ton, was a great shock. Brad was a high­ly respect­ed fig­ure in Lyt­tel­ton and with­in the Mar­itime Union, and the Union would be sup­port­ing his work­mates and fam­i­ly.

Lack of information on Port of Tauranga death extremely concerning

The Mar­itime Union is extreme­ly con­cerned about the lack of pub­lic infor­ma­tion about a Tau­ran­ga port work­er who died last week.

Maritime Union continues to press Ports of Auckland over dirty politics activities

Mar­itime Union Nation­al Pres­i­dent Gar­ry Parsloe says Ports of Auck­land man­age­ment is try­ing to get off the hook from its involve­ment with extreme right wing blog­gers dur­ing the Ports of Auck­land dis­pute. Infor­ma­tion revealed in Nicky Hager’s new book “Dirty Pol­i­tics” shows that the POAL man­age­ment were act­ing in close con­cert with “attack” blog­gers and […]

Hager investigation has revealed Ports of Auckland agenda

Ports of Auck­land must come clean after rev­e­la­tions in Nicky Hager’s new book “Dirty Pol­i­tics.”

Fishing Bill a major step towards fixing industry problems

The Mar­itime Union says the pass­ing of a bill today 31 July 2014 reform­ing the fish­ing indus­try is a major step in fix­ing seri­ous prob­lems.

Labour work and wages policy good for working people

Labour’s new pol­i­cy on work and wages, announced today, is good for the work­ing peo­ple of New Zealand.

Greens call for shipping lanes backed by Maritime Union

The Mar­itime Union is back­ing the Green Party’s pol­i­cy to imple­ment com­pul­so­ry ship­ping lanes for coastal ship­ping.

Government needs to get Fishing reform bill passed now

The Mar­itime Union is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to push through the Fish­eries (For­eign Char­ter Ves­sels and Oth­er Mat­ters) Amend­ment Bill to pro­tect work­ers from exploita­tion and abuse.

Maritimes magazine Winter 2014 now online

This edi­tion of the Mar­itimes mag­a­zine cov­ers the War on the wharves char­i­ty box­ing event, the new Mar­itime Labour Con­ven­tion, the upcom­ing gen­er­al elec­tion and health and safe­ty on the job.

Maritime workers recover crews’ wages in New Zealand ITF week of action

Tens of thou­sands of dol­lars of out­stand­ing pay for sea­far­ers is in the process of recov­ery after action last week by the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) in New Zealand ports. Del­e­ga­tions of dock­work­ers and sea­far­ers rep­re­sent­ing the ITF vis­it­ed five ves­sels in New Zealand ports as part of a week long Flag of Con­ve­nience / […]