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Maritime women and youth united

Youth and women union­ists meet­ing in Welling­ton brings togeth­er emerg­ing lead­ers for mar­itime work­ers

Helen Kelly, friend and leader to New Zealand workers

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand mourns the death of union leader Helen Kel­ly, aged 52.

Maritime women and maritime youth hold organising seminar

Youth and women work­ers from the mar­itime indus­try through­out New Zealand attend­ed the inau­gur­al Mar­itime Women and Youth Sem­i­nar in Welling­ton on 8 July 2016.

International day of action for dockers

On 7 July 2016 the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion and Inter­na­tion­al Dock­work­ers’ Coun­cil are organ­is­ing to observe a glob­al day of action that recog­nis­es the impor­tant con­tri­bu­tion dock­work­ers make to the glob­al econ­o­my, the risks they face at work every day and their grow­ing con­cerns for the future regard­ing attacks on their work­ing con­di­tions.

Stop the clock on back pay loss

A mas­sive pay­roll error means New Zealan­ders are owed bil­lions in hol­i­day back­pay.
But every day a mil­lion dol­lars of that debt is being writ­ten off as it pass­es the six year statute of lim­i­ta­tions. Tell the gov­ern­ment to stop the clock on the write-off while we get this prob­lem fixed.

Memorial Service for T.S.M.V Kaitawa

A memo­r­i­al ser­vice will be held to com­mem­o­rate the 50th anniver­sary of the sink­ing of the col­lier MV Kaitawa off Cape Rein­ga on 23 May 1966 with the loss of all 29 crew mem­bers, one of New Zealand’s worst mar­itime dis­as­ters.

Maritimes magazine Autumn 2016 edition now online

Maritime Union of Australia National Conference 2016 – youth, women and indigenous video report

A video report of the MUA Nation­al Con­fer­ence 2016 pro­duced by Local 13 mem­ber True Saa­mu

Ratification of Maritime Labour Convention welcomed

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has wel­comed the rat­i­fi­ca­tion of the Mar­itime Labour Con­ven­tion by the New Zealand Gov­ern­ment.

65th anniversary of the 1951 waterfront lockout

On 13 Feb­ru­ary 1951, New Zealand’s most sig­nif­i­cant indus­tri­al dis­pute began. For 151 days the most advanced sec­tions of the New Zealand work­ing class led by the water­siders fought a tough bat­tle against employ­ers and the State. The fol­low­ing doc­u­men­tary from 2001 is essen­tial view­ing of this land­mark in New Zealand work­ing class his­to­ry.