Author: Victor

Strengthen our shores — petition to rebuild our coastal shipping

Aotearoa New Zealand is an island nation depen­dent on trade to sur­vive.
We need gov­ern­ment action to safe­guard our shores, as oth­er nations do, by invest­ing in and strength­en­ing our coastal ship­ping indus­try.
Sign our online peti­tion here.

Privatization of Ports of Auckland would be a disaster for Auckland

Relin­quish­ing con­trol of Auckland’s key strate­gic asset would be a “lose lose sit­u­a­tion” for ratepay­ers, work­ers and busi­ness­es.

Not One More: petition to introduce corporate manslaughter legislation

Every­one deserves to return home safe­ly after work. When a per­son is killed at work, neg­li­gent com­pa­nies must be held account­able. Unions are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to intro­duce cor­po­rate manslaugh­ter leg­is­la­tion, to ensure there is Not One More. Sign the peti­tion here.

Aviation fuel problems were predicted

The Mar­itime Union is call­ing for a fleet of New Zealand coastal tankers to pro­vide ded­i­cat­ed local ser­vice and redun­dan­cy in case of emer­gency sit­u­a­tions.

Support New Zealand Coastal Shipping picket in Wellington

Sea­far­ers and com­mu­ni­ty sup­port­ers will gath­er for a peace­ful infor­ma­tion­al ral­ly out­side the Welling­ton Rail­way Sta­tion from 11am Thurs­day 20 April 2023

Maranga Mai – Rise Up! We Need Nurses! Saturday 15 April 2023

On Sat­ur­day 15 April the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand will be sup­port­ing nurs­es and oth­er health care work­ers at ral­lies through­out New Zealand.

No to privatization for Ports of Auckland

The Mar­itime Union has spo­ken out against a new report push­ing the pri­va­ti­za­tion of Ports of Auck­land.

Maritimes magazine March 2023

The March 2023 edi­tion of the offi­cial mag­a­zine of the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand

Support New Zealand Coastal Shipping picket in Nelson

Sea­far­ers and com­mu­ni­ty sup­port­ers will be gath­er­ing for a peace­ful infor­ma­tion­al pick­et 1030am Sun­day 2 April across the road from Haven Road dairy by Port Nel­son (213 Haven Road, Beachville, Nel­son, 7010).

Let Ports of Auckland do its job

Ports of Auck­land is back on track and there is no need to “mess with suc­cess.”