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We Remember: September 3rd is Merchant Navy Day

Dur­ing the Sec­ond World War, thou­sands of New Zealand sea­far­ers vol­un­teered to serve in the Mer­chant Navy.

Vale Jimmy Rosser

With great sad­ness we must report that Jim­my Ross­er, stal­wart sea­far­er and life mem­ber of MUNZ, passed away on Sat­ur­day 15th July. 

Vale Brother Hanafi Rustandi

Nation­al Sec­re­tary Pad­dy Crum­lin and Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of MUNZ Joe Fleet­wood sad­ly report that friend and com­rade of the MUA, MUNZ and the ITF and long term leader of the Indone­sian Sea­far­ers Union and ITF Asia Pacif­ic chair Hanafi Rus­tan­di has passed away sud­den­ly in Tokyo where the ITF Dock­ers and Sea­far­ers nego­ti­at­ing team is […]

ITF unions meet to shape the Future of Work

Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) unions from around the world are gath­er­ing in Stock­holm, Swe­den for the first meet­ing of the federation’s new automa­tion work­ing group.

Maritime Union, Labour & Greens Call for Action on Methyl Bromide

Press releas­es were issued this morn­ing by the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand, and our allies in the Labour and Green Par­ties. They are reprint­ed below. 

Maritime Union mourns death of Wellington member

Union mem­bers and fel­low work­ers around New Zealand mourn the loss of a friend, col­league and com­rade who died yes­ter­day in Welling­ton Hos­pi­tal. 

Agreement reached with Lyttelton Port Company

Lyt­tel­ton Port Com­pa­ny and the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand have reached an agree­ment in prin­ci­ple, and all upcom­ing strike notices are with­drawn. 

War on the Wharves: Spanish Dock Workers Fight Government

Span­ish ports are bat­ten­ing down the hatch­es, brac­ing for mas­sive union strikes against a right-wing gov­ern­ment deter­mined to impose casu­al­i­sa­tion at any cost. 

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Prime Min­is­ter Bill Eng­lish began his reign with a dubi­ous promise. On Decem­ber 12th last year he told us his gov­ern­ment will ‘sup­port unions’. That’ll make a nice change. After eight years of John Key’s anti-work­er poli­cies kick­ing us in the teeth and bleed­ing us dry, a friend­ly gov­ern­ment will be a wel­come change indeed. […]

Maritime workers gather for 2016 National Conference

The fifth con­fer­ence of the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is being held from 8–11 Novem­ber in Welling­ton.