Category: Blog

COVID-19 alert

As of 11.59pm on Sun­day 14 Feb­ru­ary, Auck­land moved to Alert Lev­el 3 for a peri­od of 3 days. The rest of New Zealand moved to Alert Lev­el 2 for the same peri­od.

New conviction for death shows health and safety crisis in the waterfront industry

Steve­dor­ing employ­er ISO’s neg­li­gence led to the death of a young woman employ­ee in 2018. This is a symp­tom of the health and safe­ty cri­sis on the New Zealand water­front.

Ports of Auckland management COVID-19 story “embarrassing” 

Claims by Ports of Auck­land that Gov­ern­ment quar­an­tine reg­u­la­tions are to blame for their fail­ures are embar­rass­ing and should be with­drawn.

Port Otago workers launch “campaign of resistance” over mismanagement

Work­ers at Port Ota­go are going on the front foot in a pub­lic cam­paign to change aggres­sive man­age­ment tac­tics which are threat­en­ing the future of the region’s export hub.

Business award for Ports of Auckland Board Chair must be returned

This week on Thurs­day 3 Decem­ber, the chair of the Board for Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed, Liz Coutts, was pre­sent­ed with an Deloitte Top 200 award for Chair­per­son of the Year in recog­ni­tion of busi­ness excel­lence and lead­er­ship.

Here’s why we need only NZ-flagged ships travelling around our coasts

I work at Ports of Auck­land. I’m onsite every day as part of the steve­dor­ing team, in the 20 years I’ve been a water­sider, I’ve had just about every job there is. Lash­er, strad­dle dri­ver you name it.

ITF unions meet to shape the Future of Work

Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) unions from around the world are gath­er­ing in Stock­holm, Swe­den for the first meet­ing of the federation’s new automa­tion work­ing group.

Maritime Union, Labour & Greens Call for Action on Methyl Bromide

Press releas­es were issued this morn­ing by the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand, and our allies in the Labour and Green Par­ties. They are reprint­ed below. 

Maritime Union mourns death of Wellington member

Union mem­bers and fel­low work­ers around New Zealand mourn the loss of a friend, col­league and com­rade who died yes­ter­day in Welling­ton Hos­pi­tal. 

Agreement reached with Lyttelton Port Company

Lyt­tel­ton Port Com­pa­ny and the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand have reached an agree­ment in prin­ci­ple, and all upcom­ing strike notices are with­drawn.