Year: 2020

Skilled New Zealand workers turned down for jobs at Ports of Auckland

Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed CEO Tony Gib­son has told media that there are no New Zealand work­ers avail­able for key jobs includ­ing crane and strad­dle dri­vers.
How­ev­er the Union has an email from a for­mer POAL employ­ee that turns him down for a job as a strad­dle dri­ver, and instead offers a role for skilled lash­ing work on a ship.

Port Otago workers launch “campaign of resistance” over mismanagement

Work­ers at Port Ota­go are going on the front foot in a pub­lic cam­paign to change aggres­sive man­age­ment tac­tics which are threat­en­ing the future of the region’s export hub.

Business award for Ports of Auckland Board Chair must be returned

This week on Thurs­day 3 Decem­ber, the chair of the Board for Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed, Liz Coutts, was pre­sent­ed with an Deloitte Top 200 award for Chair­per­son of the Year in recog­ni­tion of busi­ness excel­lence and lead­er­ship.

Maritime Union demands tougher penalties for reckless managers

The Mar­itime Union wants man­agers and board chairs held indi­vid­u­al­ly account­able for work­place deaths.

A Century of Struggle

A Cen­tu­ry of Strug­gle chron­i­cles the hun­dred-year his­to­ry of the NZ Sea­men’s Union from its for­ma­tion in 1879.

Transport plan a chance to rebuild coastal shipping

The Mar­itime Union wel­comes the Government’s trans­port pol­i­cy, which was released today, as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to restore New Zealand’s coastal ship­ping indus­try and repeal sec­tion 198 of the Mar­itime Trans­port Act

Maritime workers back Ports of Auckland health and safety review

Mar­itime Union Nation­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood says the Union has repeat­ed­ly called for a review of safe­ty prac­tices at all ports in New Zealand.

Here’s why we need only NZ-flagged ships travelling around our coasts

I work at Ports of Auck­land. I’m onsite every day as part of the steve­dor­ing team, in the 20 years I’ve been a water­sider, I’ve had just about every job there is. Lash­er, strad­dle dri­ver you name it.

Strengthen our shores. Rebuild our coastal shipping. Sign the petition now.

Aotearoa-New Zealand is an island nation depen­dent on trade to sur­vive. But because our coastal ship­ping was dereg­u­lat­ed by the Gov­ern­ment in the 1990’s, we now rely on multi­na­tion­al ship­ping com­pa­nies to car­ry our goods between our cities and beyond. That’s cost us local jobs and valu­able skills, it’s harm­ing our cli­mate by push­ing more […]

Rebuilding our coastal shipping requires government intervention

If the Covid-19 response has taught us any­thing, it’s that our econ­o­my lives and dies by our sup­ply chains and that when push comes to shove New Zealand can’t always rely on the rest of the world.