Category: Blog

War on the Wharves IX

War on the Wharves IX is com­ing home to South Syd­ney! The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand and ILWU Local 142 Hawaii will be join­ing the MUA to raise mon­ey for peo­ple doing it tough through our unique, inter­na­tion­al char­i­ty box­ing comp!
**LIVE STREAM WEDS 6 NOVEMBER 10.00PM NZ TIME**

Wellington Branch Stopwork Meeting 4 November 2024

Time: 10–12pm
Venue: Nation­al Office, 220 Willis St, Lev­el 1, Con­fer­ence Room.
Your atten­dance is wel­come, hope to see you there.

War on the Wharves 2024 charity boxing

To sup­port our team, check out the offi­cial mer­chan­dise web­site.

Before you eat – fighting exploitation on foreign fishing vessels

Doc­u­men­tary film screen­ing ‘Before You Eat’ expos­es the exploita­tion and inhu­mane con­di­tions endured by Indone­sian crew mem­bers on for­eign fish­ing ves­sels.

Fight Back Together – Maranga Ake 23 October 2024

On the 23rd of Octo­ber the NZCTU are host­ing hui across the coun­try to fight back against the Government’s ongo­ing attacks on work­ers’ rights. We are call­ing on work­ing peo­ple to stand with us and send a strong mes­sage to those in pow­er. 

New Zealanders want publicly-owned rail ferries!

New polling released on 15 Octo­ber by the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) shows the pub­lic wants pub­licly owned, rail enabled fer­ries.

Welcome to the Maritime Union

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand was formed in 2002 when the New Zealand Water­front Work­ers’ Union and the New Zealand Sea­far­ers’ Union joined togeth­er. We rep­re­sent water­front work­ers, sea­far­ers and relat­ed work­ers in New Zealand.

Victory for Lyttelton Port Workers against unlawful health monitoring

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) has wel­comed this week’s deci­sion by the Employ­ment Rela­tions Author­i­ty (ERA) which has ruled against Lyt­tel­ton Port Company’s (LPC) attempt to uni­lat­er­al­ly impose a manda­to­ry health mon­i­tor­ing pol­i­cy on MUNZ mem­bers. 

Our Ferries, Our Future

Sign the peti­tion for pub­lic owned, rail enabled fer­ries for Cook Strait.

Connemara failure highlights urgent need to address ferry fiasco

The pow­er loss of the Blue­bridge fer­ry Con­nemara in the Cook Strait high­lights the impor­tance of a resilient pub­licly-owned inter­is­land fer­ry ser­vice