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Before you eat – fighting exploitation on foreign fishing vessels

Doc­u­men­tary film screen­ing ‘Before You Eat’ expos­es the exploita­tion and inhu­mane con­di­tions endured by Indone­sian crew mem­bers on for­eign fish­ing ves­sels.

Fight Back Together – Maranga Ake 23 October 2024

On the 23rd of Octo­ber the NZCTU are host­ing hui across the coun­try to fight back against the Government’s ongo­ing attacks on work­ers’ rights. We are call­ing on work­ing peo­ple to stand with us and send a strong mes­sage to those in pow­er. 

New Zealanders want publicly-owned rail ferries!

New polling released on 15 Octo­ber by the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) shows the pub­lic wants pub­licly owned, rail enabled fer­ries.

Welcome to the Maritime Union

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand was formed in 2002 when the New Zealand Water­front Work­ers’ Union and the New Zealand Sea­far­ers’ Union joined togeth­er. We rep­re­sent water­front work­ers, sea­far­ers and relat­ed work­ers in New Zealand.

Victory for Lyttelton Port Workers against unlawful health monitoring

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) has wel­comed this week’s deci­sion by the Employ­ment Rela­tions Author­i­ty (ERA) which has ruled against Lyt­tel­ton Port Company’s (LPC) attempt to uni­lat­er­al­ly impose a manda­to­ry health mon­i­tor­ing pol­i­cy on MUNZ mem­bers. 

Our Ferries, Our Future

Sign the peti­tion for pub­lic owned, rail enabled fer­ries for Cook Strait.

Connemara failure highlights urgent need to address ferry fiasco

The pow­er loss of the Blue­bridge fer­ry Con­nemara in the Cook Strait high­lights the impor­tance of a resilient pub­licly-owned inter­is­land fer­ry ser­vice

Manahau crew being denied access to representation

The Man­a­hau barge ground­ing at West­port could have led to a dis­as­ter, but crew are being pre­vent­ed from talk­ing to Union rep­re­sen­ta­tives. 

Kaitaki sentencing underscores need for new ferries

KiwiRail has been fined $432,500 for a charge under the Health and Safe­ty at Work Act brought by indus­try reg­u­la­tor Mar­itime New Zealand, fol­low­ing loss of engine pow­er on the Inter­is­lander fer­ry Kaita­ki on Sat­ur­day 28 Jan­u­ary 2023. 

Maritime Union of New Zealand back struggle of Australian Unions against anti-Union, anti-worker laws

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has offered its full sup­port to Aus­tralian Unions in their strug­gle against anti-Union laws. The CFMEU Con­struc­tion Divi­sion was recent­ly placed in admin­is­tra­tion fol­low­ing unproven alle­ga­tions of crim­i­nal activ­i­ty and new leg­is­la­tion rushed through the Aus­tralian Par­lia­ment. The Mar­itime Union of Aus­tralia is a divi­sion of the CFMEU, and […]