Author: Victor

Aucklanders show strong opposition to port sale in new poll

The Mar­itime Union has released a new poll that shows an over­whelm­ing major­i­ty of Auck­lan­ders sup­port keep­ing the Port of Auck­land in pub­lic own­er­ship.

Substantial progress for transport under the Labour-led Government

Three key suc­cess­es of the cur­rent Gov­ern­ment have been in build­ing coastal ship­ping capa­bil­i­ty, improv­ing health and safe­ty through the Ports Health and Safe­ty Lead­er­ship Group, and lay­ing the foun­da­tions for improved con­di­tions in the indus­try through Fair Pay Agree­ments.

Information for voters aboard a vessel or offshore installation

There are a num­ber of options for vot­ers who are onboard ves­sels or an off­shore instal­la­tion dur­ing the vot­ing peri­od for the 2023 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

MUNZ represented at ILWU Young Workers Conference

MUNZ was rep­re­sent­ed by Auck­land Local 13 exec­u­tive mem­ber Kima Iosua at the 5th Bien­ni­al Young Work­ers Con­fer­ence held on Sep­tem­ber 27–29, 2023 in Van­cou­ver, BC, Cana­da, by ILWU Cana­da.

‘Show us the numbers’ on port privatisation

May­or of Auck­land should “show us the num­bers” about Auckland’s finances before push­ing port pri­vati­sa­tion as the easy answer to its prob­lems.

National strategy required for future of New Zealand ports and shipping

The Mar­itime Union says there needs to be nation­al lev­el plan­ning around ports and coastal ship­ping, oth­er­wise New Zealand is going to find itself in a bad posi­tion.

Christopher Luxon. #OUTOFTOUCH #TOOMUCHRISK

This elec­tion, vot­ers have a clear choice to make about who will lead New Zealand. Christo­pher Luxon’s poli­cies show he is out of touch. He is the wrong per­son to lead New Zealand in a cost-of-liv­ing cri­sis.
He doesn’t under­stand life for every­day kiwis.

Mayor concedes Port of Auckland privatisation will lead to increased costs

The Mar­itime Union has respond­ed to claims by the May­or of Auckland’s office the Union is engaged in “unfound­ed scare­mon­ger­ing” about the pro­posed sale of the Port of Auck­land.

New report shows major downsides to Ports of Auckland privatisation scheme

A key con­cern com­ing out of the report is the poten­tial for price hikes hit­ting port users – then being passed on to local indus­try and con­sumers. Pri­vati­sa­tion of oper­a­tions at Ports of Auck­land is esti­mat­ed to hit local port users with NZ$70 mil­lion in extra costs annu­al­ly.

Maritimes Magazine August 2023

The offi­cial mag­a­zine of the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand. This issue: coastal ship­ping cam­paign, fair pay agree­ments, stop­ping the port pri­va­ti­za­tion agen­da and more!