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Unions oppose increasing GST

The Coun­cil of Trade Union says a pro­pos­al to increase in GST would hit low income earn­ers hard.

Port Otago workers reject company restructuring proposal

A com­bined union meet­ing at Port Ota­go today vot­ed to reject new restruc­tur­ing pro­pos­als from Port Ota­go man­age­ment.

Around 200 union mem­bers attend­ed a stop­work meet­ing at 1pm which halt­ed work around the port and packed the Union hall in one of the largest meet­ings of recent years.

Port of Otago “near crisis”

The Ota­go Dai­ly Times reports on the Port Chalmers sit­u­a­tion as man­age­ment con­tin­ue to push unwant­ed plans.

Health and safety group — only bosses invited …

More news on why work­ers have not been invit­ed to the Gov­ern­men­t’s health and safe­ty dis­cus­sion group — only cor­po­rate chief exec­u­tives!

Transport unions demand place for workers in health and safety group

Trans­port work­ers have ques­tioned why work­ers have not been invit­ed to join a new health and safe­ty group being set up by the Min­is­ter of Labour.

Inquiry into fishing industry needed

The Mar­itime Union says infor­ma­tion revealed in a New Zealand doc­u­men­tary on the fish­ing indus­try must be fol­lowed up by a Gov­ern­ment inquiry.

The doc­u­men­tary The Great New Zealand Fish­ing Scan­dal by inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Guy Hen­der­son screened on Sky last night and today, and cov­ered devel­op­ments in the indus­try since the 1990s.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says the doc­u­men­tary was accu­rate and he believes there is much more to be uncov­ered.

NZ Herald reports on Annapurna crew

The New Zealand Her­ald has an NZPA report on the sit­u­a­tion of the Anna­pur­na and it’s Burmese crew here.

Maritime Union helps Burmese crew on Annapurna

The Mar­itime Union says it is help­ing the Burmese crew from the seized ves­sel Anna­pur­na in the Ports of Auck­land.

The Liber­ian-flagged Anna­pur­na was seized yes­ter­day by cred­i­tors after it berthed in Auck­land, fol­low­ing the bank­rupt­cy of its own­ers East­wind.

Mar­itime Union Auck­land Sea­far­ers Branch Sec­re­tary Gar­ry Parsloe, who rep­re­sents the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers Fed­er­a­tion, says the pri­ma­ry con­cern of the Union is that crew mem­bers are paid their wages.

Threat of union action over port team plan

The Ota­go Dai­ly Times reports on pos­si­ble indus­tri­al action by the Mar­itime Union at Port of Ota­go here.

Minister of Social Development has attacked freedom of speech

UPDATED: see TV inter­view here

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says that actions of Social Devel­op­ment Min­is­ter Paula Ben­nett and her office in releas­ing pri­vate infor­ma­tion of New Zealand cit­i­zens is an attack of free­dom of speech.

Mar­itime Union spokesper­son Vic­tor Bil­lot says the delib­er­ate release of the incomes of two solo moth­ers to the media was a sin­is­ter attempt to bul­ly peo­ple into sub­mis­sion.

The two women had crit­i­cized cuts to train­ing allowances that would make it more dif­fi­cult for them to study and improve their qual­i­fi­ca­tions.

“The actions of the Min­is­ter and her office are not about pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion for rea­soned debate, it is clear­ly a tac­tic to fright­en and bul­ly any­one who stands up and has an opin­ion.”