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Maritimes magazine Winter 2015 edition online now

Health and safety reforms must not be watered down

The Gov­ern­ment must get the Health and Safe­ty Reform Bill back on track and not water down its cen­tral pro­tec­tions for work­ers.

Meddling with health and safety bill a disgrace

The Mar­itime Union has denounced the water­ing down of the Health and Safe­ty Reform Bill as pan­der­ing to a greedy and irre­spon­si­ble minor­i­ty.

Maritime Union comes to assistance of distressed crew on Lancelot V

For­eign crew aboard a detained ship in Tau­ran­ga have received inter­im pay­ments totalling thou­sands of dol­lars after unions inter­vened fol­low­ing sev­er­al months of seri­ous prob­lems.

Trans Tasman maritime unions meet with NZ politicians in Chevron campaign

A glob­al cam­paign against oil oper­a­tor Chevron has come to New Zealand, with mar­itime unions say­ing the com­pa­ny has a bad record of deal­ing with local com­mu­ni­ties around the world.

286 Killed In A Small Business

When 29 men died at Pike Riv­er mine, the Gov­ern­ment promised stronger health and safe­ty laws to pro­tect work­ers.
But now, if you work for a small busi­ness they want to leave you out.

Maritime Union statement on Port Otago straddle accident

The Mar­itime Union says a strad­dle acci­dent at Port Chalmers on Wednes­day 1 July involved one of its mem­bers.

Maritime Union notes guilty plea following Lyttelton port death

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has not­ed the guilty plea of the Lyt­tel­ton Port Com­pa­ny (LPC) to charges laid by Work­safe fol­low­ing the death of port work­er Brad Fletch­er in August 2014.

Vale Peter Conway, a friend of workers

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand pass­es its sol­i­dar­i­ty and con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly and friends of Peter Con­way, who died on 9 June 2015. Peter was a long stand­ing advo­cate for work­ers, most promi­nent­ly dur­ing his time as CTU Sec­re­tary, and was a good friend to the Mar­itime Union and its mem­bers. We note his […]

No to privatisation – keep Port of Lyttelton in our ownership

The Mar­itime Union has repeat­ed its warn­ings that the Christchurch City Coun­cil should not pri­va­tise key assets includ­ing the Port of Lyt­tel­ton.