Year: 2025

Kaiarahi failure proves urgent need to retain emergency tug

The union rep­re­sent­ing Kiwi sea­far­ers says the tech­ni­cal fail­ure of the Inter­is­lander fer­ry Kaiarahi in the Cook Strait on Fri­day night is a “red flag” that the Gov­ern­ment can­not ignore, prov­ing the need to keep an emer­gency ocean-going tug on stand­by.

Holcim lashes out and threatens New Zealand Government for following maritime laws

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has con­demned glob­al cement giant Holcim’s threats to use 500 trucks a month to trans­port cement on New Zealand roads, rather than crew a ship with New Zealand sea­far­ers.

Victory for Kiwi jobs as Government rejects foreign cement ship exemption

NovaAl­go­ma Cement Car­ri­ers’ (NACC) appli­ca­tion to oper­ate a for­eign-flagged ves­sel car­ry­ing Hol­cim cement on the New Zealand coast has been declined by the Gov­ern­ment.

Trans-Tasman Maritime Union Federation Ratified: A New Era of Unity for Maritime Workers

The Mar­itime Union of Aus­tralia (MUA) and the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) have for­mal­ly rat­i­fied a Trans-Tas­­man Fed­er­a­tion that unites mar­itime work­ers across Aus­tralia and New Zealand in a sin­gle, coor­di­nat­ed indus­tri­al and polit­i­cal force. The rat­i­fi­ca­tion by the MUNZ Nation­al Coun­cil fol­lows res­o­lu­tions passed at the MUA Qua­dren­ni­al Nation­al Con­fer­ence. It marks […]

Holcim fails on social responsibility in New Zealand

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has con­demned glob­al cement giant Hol­cim after the com­pa­ny issued for­mal notice of ter­mi­na­tion for the entire New Zealand crew of the cement car­ri­er MV Buf­fa­lo, effec­tive on 28 Decem­ber 2025.

Move to axe emergency tug months early by Government

Gov­ern­ment plans to pre­ma­ture­ly end the con­tract for the coun­try’s sole ded­i­cat­ed ocean-going emer­gency tow ves­sel, the MMA Vision, risks lives, the mar­itime envi­ron­ment, and nation­al ener­gy secu­ri­ty.

Maritime Union Stands with Pike River Families and calls for Corporate Manslaughter Laws

MUNZ is giv­ing its full sup­port to the Pike Riv­er fam­i­lies, who are call­ing on Par­lia­ment to strength­en the Health and Safe­ty at Work Act (HSWA) and urgent­ly intro­duce Cor­po­rate Manslaugh­ter laws into New Zealand leg­is­la­tion.

Wellington Fundraiser Quiz Night 3 December 2025

We’re super excit­ed to announce our 2nd fundrais­er to help get our amaz­ing wahine to WIMDOI and this time we’re tak­ing over The Feath­er­ston for an epic Quiz Night on 3rd Decem­ber!

Powerful Global Alliance aims to Halt Job-Killing Port Automation

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Nation­al Sec­re­tary Carl Find­lay was a sig­na­to­ry to the his­toric “Lis­bon Sum­mit Res­o­lu­tion” signed this week in Lis­bon, Por­tu­gal, at a spe­cial Anti-Automa­tion Con­fer­ence of the Inter­na­tion­al Dock­work­ers Coun­cil.

Inquiry Confirms Maritime Union Warnings on Manahau

Find­ings from an offi­cial inquiry on the Man­a­hau barge ground­ing obtained by media show the ves­sel was unsuit­able for con­di­tions and have absolved crew that were blamed for the ground­ing.