Author: Victor

ITF’s Nowhere to Hide Week of Action to be expanded to New Zealand ports as Inspectors stamp out rampant wage theft

MUNZ rep­re­sen­ta­tives recent­ly took part in this ITF cam­paign and train­ing in Aus­tralian ports. Many of the ships and sit­u­a­tions of course also vis­it NZ waters.

Selling Port of Auckland would be “letting the vultures in”

Ongo­ing uncer­tain­ty about the future of Port of Auck­land is a threat to the eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty of Auck­land City and New Zealand.

NZCTU presents Briefing for the Incoming Government

The New Zealand Coun­cil of Trade Unions has pro­vid­ed its brief­ing for the incom­ing gov­ern­ment.

Maritime Union statement on Gaza and Port protests

The Mar­itime Union is back­ing inter­na­tion­al calls for a cease­fire in the Israel–Gaza con­flict.

Rally for NZ Coastal Shipping – Wellington

MUNZ Welling­ton Branch ral­ly for coastal ship­ping, out­side Welling­ton Rail­way Sta­tion, meet­ing 1200 Fri­day 17 Novem­ber

Massive price hikes in DP World Australian ports must scuttle Auckland port privatization plans

DP World, the glob­al port oper­a­tor linked to a pri­vati­sa­tion agen­da at the Port of Auck­land, is embroiled in con­tro­ver­sy in Aus­tralia after mas­sive price hikes for port users.

Does DP World dodge taxes? Port giant under spotlight

The multi­na­tion­al involved in the pro­posed pri­vati­sa­tion of Port of Auck­land is the sub­ject of a new Aus­tralian report “Does DP World dodge tax­es in Aus­tralia?”

Withdrawal of proposed service threatens coastal shipping progress

The can­cel­la­tion of a pro­posed MOVE Logis­tics roll-on-roll-off (RoRo) ship due to tech­ni­cal issues was a step back­ward for New Zealand coastal ship­ping.

TAIC report into 2022 port deaths

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has wel­comed the release today of a com­bined report by the Trans­port Acci­dent Inves­ti­ga­tion Com­mis­sion (TAIC) on two sep­a­rate fatal acci­dents in New Zealand ports in 2022. Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Nation­al Sec­re­tary Craig Har­ri­son says the Union endors­es the find­ings of the report and its rec­om­men­da­tions. “This […]

ACT-dominated Luxon Government would be a disaster for working people

A late shift in the polls indi­cates that New Zealand work­ers are becom­ing aware of the dan­gers of a change of Gov­ern­ment and extreme right-wing poli­cies.