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Solidarity with Pike River miners

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has offered its sup­port and sol­i­dar­i­ty to the Pike Riv­er min­ers.

Employment law changes will create backlash against Government

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has vowed to go on the offen­sive against employ­ment law changes pushed through by the Nation­al Gov­ern­ment.

Global mining and maritime unions meet in Auckland

Lead­ing inter­na­tion­al min­ing and mar­itime unions rep­re­sent­ing mil­lions of work­ers around the world are meet­ing in Auck­land.

Maritime Union concerned by methyl bromide decision

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has spo­ken out against the deci­sion to allow the con­tin­ued use of methyl bro­mide as a fumi­gant.

Maritimes magazine Spring 2010 online

The Spring 2010 edi­tion of the Mar­itimes mag­a­zine is now avail­able for down­load.

Seafarers Scholarships

Sea­far­ers Schol­ar­ships for 2011 study at New Zealand ter­tiary insti­tu­tions are now avail­able.

Government ports report narrow and biased

The Mar­itime Union has attacked what it describes as the “nar­row­ness of vision” in yet anoth­er report into the state of New Zealand’s ports.

Kaikoura slip shows the importance of coastal shipping

The run­down of New Zealand coastal ship­ping is threat­en­ing New Zealand’s capa­bil­i­ty to deal with the social and eco­nom­ic fall­out from nat­ur­al dis­as­ters.

Deaths of fishing crew members a maritime tragedy

The Mar­itime Union says the con­firmed death of three Indone­sian crew mem­bers miss­ing after sink­ing of a fish­ing ves­sel Oyang 70 is a tragedy.

The reality of National’s “90 day fire at will” laws

Heather Smith tells the sto­ry of how she was unfair­ly dis­missed under John Key’s new 90 day law.