Category: Blog

Port workers welcome port health and safety review

Unions have made a joint state­ment to express their uni­ty and deter­mi­na­tion to pre­vent any more unnec­es­sary deaths in New Zealand ports, and have stat­ed their will­ing­ness to work with the Government’s ini­tia­tives.

Maritime Union statement on Lyttelton port death

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Nation­al Sec­re­tary Craig Har­ri­son says the death of an Lyt­tel­ton port work­er is the trag­ic loss of life of anoth­er work­er and has shak­en the mar­itime indus­try.

Maritime Union joins meeting to keep Marsden Point refinery in operation

Pub­lic meet­ing at the Forum North Cen­tre, Whangarei, 1 pm Sun­day 24 April 2022.

Unions call for national standards in stevedoring health and safety

Unions in the ports and mar­itime sec­tor are demand­ing nation­al steve­dor­ing stan­dards be intro­duced to deal with the health and safe­ty cri­sis in New Zealand ports.

Death at Ports of Auckland

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is very sad to report the death of a work­er at Wal­lace Invest­ments steve­dores at the Ports of Auck­land this morn­ing Tues­day 19 April 2022.

Loss of coastal tankers a severe blow to New Zealand maritime industry

Unions rep­re­sent­ing ship crews says the removal of two New Zealand coastal tankers by petrol com­pa­nies is dis­ap­point­ing and has dam­aged New Zealand’s mar­itime indus­try.

New Zealand will then be com­plete­ly reliant on over­seas ship­ping to sup­ply our fuel – with no back­up.

The DockCast: ITF Young Dockers Podcast with Paddy Crumlin

Young dock­ers Nick Lori­dan (ABBV-BTB Bel­gium) and Viri Gomez (ILWU Cana­da) caught up with MUA Nation­al Sec­re­tary, ITF Dock­ers’ Sec­tion Chair, and ITF Pres­i­dent, Pad­dy Crum­lin.

Wellington Branch Newsletter April 2022

New Zealand transport workers back P&O ferry workers after shock mass sacking

UK fer­ry oper­a­tor P&O Fer­ries has moved to sack 800 UK-based sea­far­ers and out­source their jobs to non-union, agency work­ers.

ITF Dockers unite against Putin’s Ukraine invasion

Fol­low­ing last week’s call from trans­port unions for an imme­di­ate cease­fire to the con­flict in Ukraine, the glob­al labour move­ment and inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty has stood stead­fast in their con­dem­na­tion of the war and call for peace.