Category: Blog

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?”

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. 

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.

Maritime Union backs calls for corporate manslaughter law

The Mar­itime Union is back­ing the call from Pike Riv­er fam­i­ly mem­bers Anna Osborne and Sonya Rock­house for the intro­duc­tion of crim­i­nal cor­po­rate manslaugh­ter laws.