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Ports of Auckland dispute newsletter 21 August 2013

Ports of Auck­land dis­pute newslet­ter 21 August 2013 (PDF, 889 Kb)

Warning flag over overseas labour in Rena cleanup

The Mar­itime Union is con­cerned that jobs on the Rena clean up project are going to over­seas work­ers while New Zealand sea­far­ers are out of work.

Ports of Auckland workers return to Teal Park with message

Mar­itime Union mem­bers at the Ports of Auck­land will be gath­er­ing at Teal Park on Fri­day 5 Octo­ber 2012 from 2pm until 3.30pm (next to the entrance to the Fer­gus­son Ter­mi­nal on Tama­ki Dri­ve.)

ACIL confused about their role in Port of Auckland dispute

The release of an inter­nal email today shows that ACIL is con­fused about their role in the Port of Auck­land dis­pute, says the Mar­itime Union.

Ports management and board must account for disruption to Auckland

The Mar­itime Union says Ports of Auck­land must be held account­able for the sig­nif­i­cant dis­rup­tion they are impos­ing on Auck­land.

Port proposals to reduce worker protections when contracting out unhelpful

Mem­bers of the Mar­itime Union were frus­trat­ed today that in medi­a­tion the Ports of Auck­land has tabled a doc­u­ment that press­es ahead with reduc­tions to job secu­ri­ty for wharfies.

Maritime workers board Flag of Convenience ships in national week of action

New Zealand mar­itime work­ers will be going up the gang­way this week to check out ships fly­ing “flags of con­ve­nience” and ensure that crew con­di­tions, wages, and health and safe­ty stan­dards are up to scratch.

Transport workers mobilize as overseas rolling stock arrives in New Zealand

The New Zealand affil­i­ates of the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) met today to dis­cuss their con­cerns with the arrival of KiwiRail’s new loco­mo­tives in the coun­try.

Job losses averted at Port Otago

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says an agree­ment it has reached with Port Ota­go Lim­it­ed is a “win win” sit­u­a­tion that will pre­vent job loss­es.

Mar­itime Union Nation­al Pres­i­dent Phil Adams says a meet­ing of 150 car­go han­dlers held yes­ter­day at Port Chalmers vot­ed in favour of a pro­pos­al ham­mered out by the Unions and the Com­pa­ny.

Mem­bers of the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand and the Rail and Mar­itime Trans­port Union attend­ed the meet­ing.

Mr Adams says the pro­pos­al will see no com­pul­so­ry redun­dan­cies amongst the work­force.

“We believe the work­force will respond to the Com­pa­ny’s efforts by con­tin­u­ing to ensure a high lev­el of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.”

Seafarers Scholarships available for 2010

Four Sea­far­ers Schol­ar­ships are avail­able for MUNZ sea­far­er mem­bers, and chil­dren or grand­chil­dren of New Zealand sea­far­ers, for study in 2010 at Uni­ver­si­ty or tech­ni­cal insti­tutes.

Details and appli­ca­tion infor­ma­tion for the schol­ar­ships is avail­able here.