Year: 2021

Posthumous medal applications – Merchant Navy

To make a posthu­mous Medal Appli­ca­tion to the NZ Defence Force for World War 2 medals for your Grand­fa­ther, a sea­man and mem­ber of the NZ Seaman’s Union, crew­ing on a ship of the ‘mer­chant navy of New Zealand’ on New Zealand coastal voy­ages, dur­ing World War 2.

MUNZ Statement on Vaccination

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Incor­po­rat­ed Nation­al Coun­cil Meet­ing held on the 11–12 August 2021 rec­om­mends and sup­ports our mem­bers being vac­ci­nat­ed for the Covid 19 virus.

But also recog­nis­es the free­dom of choice for our mem­bers and encour­ages them to make an informed deci­sion.

Merchant Navy Day, Auckland Commemoration Service 3 September 2021

This Sep­tem­ber 3, help com­mem­o­rate those who served and lost their lives in the Mer­chant Navy. The New Zealand Mar­itime Muse­um will be host­ing a 1‑hour ser­vice, fol­lowed by refresh­ments in the Mar­itime Muse­um and a wreath-lay­ing cer­e­mo­ny upon the muse­um’s ves­sel Nau­tilus. Those who are unable to make it in per­son are invit­ed to […]

Important COVID vaccination information for Port of Tauranga workers

The Government’s lat­est bor­der order makes Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion com­pul­so­ry for some groups of port work­ers (those sub­ject to the cur­rent test­ing require­ments). 

Maritime Union welcomes charges against former Ports of Auckland CEO

The indi­vid­ual fac­ing charges for the 2020 death of a work­er at the Ports of Auck­land is for­mer CEO Tony Gib­son.

Maritime Union welcomes charges against Ports of Auckland following 2020 death

The charges fol­low an inde­pen­dent health and safe­ty review that found sys­temic issues with the man­age­ment health and safe­ty cul­ture at POAL.

Tauranga COVID alarm reinforces need to stay on guard

A COVID alarm aboard a ves­sel in the Port of Tau­ran­ga is a reminder that strict process­es at ports are essen­tial to pro­tect New Zealand from expo­sure.

Women’s Conference 2021

After months of plan­ning along­side, a strong group of 24 MUNZ Women from around New Zealand attend­ed the Coun­cil of Trade Unions Bian­nu­al Women’s Con­fer­ence in Welling­ton on 19 and 20 July 2021.

Case for New Zealand shipping now urgent

There is a grow­ing real­i­sa­tion that New Zealand needs ship­ping capa­bil­i­ty to ensure reli­able and secure ser­vices.

Maritime Union calls for New Zealand shipping to resolve supply chain crisis

There needs to be inno­v­a­tive respons­es to ongo­ing ship­ping con­ges­tion.