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Ports of Auckland workers want their share

Mar­itime work­ers at Ports of Auck­land say their indus­tri­al action is about get­ting a fair share of the prof­it their hard work gen­er­ates.

Work­ers at the Ports of Auck­land will be on strike from 0700 hours on 2 Octo­ber 2007 to 0659 hours on 4 Octo­ber.

Mar­itime Union Auck­land Water­front Branch Local 13 Pres­i­dent Denis Carlisle says that mar­itime work­ers are the engine dri­ving the suc­cess of New Zealand’s biggest con­tain­er port.

Maritime Union joins calls to end joint venture fishing

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has added its voice to calls for the removal of for­eign-crewed joint ven­ture fish­ing ves­sels from New Zealand fish­eries.
Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says he agrees with the com­mon sense approach to the prob­lem out­lined by the New Zealand Fed­er­a­tion of Com­mer­cial Fish­er­men.

Maritime Union says Ports of Auckland pay tactics have backfired

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has gone on the front foot in the Ports of Auck­land dis­pute, say­ing the port com­pa­ny has bad­ly mis­han­dled the sit­u­a­tion.

Mar­itime Union mem­bers at the Ports of Auck­land vot­ed to take two day strike action start­ing 2 Octo­ber, after man­age­ment start­ed to make unau­tho­rized pay­ments into bank accounts.

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Auck­land Water­front Local 13 Pres­i­dent Denis Carlisle says Ports of Auck­land man­age­ment have gen­er­at­ed a back­lash amongst work­ers.

Maritime Union joins hospital picket lines in Invercargill

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is throw­ing its weight behind locked out hos­pi­tal work­ers around New Zealand.

Hun­dreds of low paid employ­ees of Spot­less Ser­vices Lim­it­ed have been locked out of their work. The lock­out is now on day six.

In Inver­cargill, mem­bers of the Bluff branch of the Mar­itime Union have trav­elled up from the Bluff water­front to join the pick­et lines at the hos­pi­tal.

Cash bounty for missing crew members could attract criminals

The Mar­itime Union says cash boun­ties being offered for miss­ing over­seas fish­ing crew mem­bers is extreme­ly dan­ger­ous and is of dubi­ous legal­i­ty.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says he is con­cerned about a new trend that has pri­vate oper­a­tors fronting up big mon­ey to track down miss­ing crew mem­bers.

An adver­tise­ment placed in the Ota­go Dai­ly Times today offers an $1000 boun­ty for infor­ma­tion about miss­ing crew mem­ber Kismo Pak­istan who left his ves­sel the FV Oyang 70 in Dunedin on 5 June 2007.

Maritime Union concerned at treatment of Wellington Coroner

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has spo­ken out against the replace­ment of Welling­ton coro­ner Gar­ry Evans and paid trib­ute to his long ser­vice.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says the Union has worked along­side Mr Evans going back at least 40 years.

Maritime Union of New Zealand says it will stop work on blacklisted ship in Australian dispute

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says it will stop work on the ship involved in the Port Kem­bla water­front dis­pute in Aus­tralia if it comes to New Zealand.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says if the MV Capo Noli enters any port in New Zealand, the dis­pute in Port Kem­bla will be imme­di­ate­ly extend­ed to New Zealand.

The Union has offered its full sup­port to the Mar­itime Union of Aus­tralia, who are fight­ing an attempt by multi­na­tion­al ship­ping cor­po­ra­tion CSL to make Third World crews do water­front work in Port Kem­bla in New South Wales.

Maritime workers onboard protest at Port of Tauranga

A del­e­ga­tion of Mar­itime Union mem­bers will go onboard the ves­sel Buz­zard Bay at the Port of Tau­ran­ga today to deliv­er a mes­sage to the cap­tain about prac­tices aboard the ship.

The Buz­zard Bay is trad­ing with­out an Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) agree­ment that guar­an­tees employ­ment con­di­tions are main­tained at an accept­able inter­na­tion­al­ly agreed lev­el, and the health, wel­fare, social and human rights of crew are also pro­tect­ed.

The over­seas crew on the ves­sel have been unlash­ing car­go in New Zealand waters with­out per­mits.

Maritime Union welcomes growing political support for coastal shipping

The Mar­itime Union has wel­comed Green MP Sue Brad­ford’s strong sup­port of Coastal Ship­ping in Par­lia­ment this week.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says he sup­ports Ms Brad­ford’s view pre­sent­ed in her State­ment to the Prime Min­is­ter that there needs to be some major Bud­get announce­ments to kick start the Coastal Ship­ping indus­try.

Major new New Zealand Transport Union on track

The Rail and Mar­itime Trans­port Union (RMTU) and Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) have announced an ‘agree­ment in prin­ci­ple’ to form a major new trans­port union.

A joint nego­ti­at­ing team has out­lined a process for the for­ma­tion of the new amal­ga­mat­ed Union that will cov­er both mar­itime work­ers in ports and on ves­sels, Rail and oth­er Trans­port Indus­try work­ers.

Fur­ther nego­ti­a­tions will now take place on the final struc­ture of the new Union, with the final pro­pos­al to be vot­ed on by all mem­bers of the RMTU and MUNZ.