Category: Campaigns

Support P & O seafarers

On March 17, P&O Fer­ries in the UK sacked 800 sea­far­ers with 30 min­utes notice over a pre-record­ed Zoom call. Add your sup­port now for these work­ers by sign­ing the online peti­tion!

Call on Svitzer to stop attacking tug workers

Com­pa­nies like Svitzer are dri­ving a race to the bot­tom in the tug sec­tor. We know that tug work­ers and their fam­i­lies are pay­ing the price of aggres­sive employ­er tac­tics like Svitzer’s. Longer hours. Low­er pay. More acci­dents at work. Our glob­al union fam­i­ly won’t stand for this. Espe­cial­ly not when com­pa­nies like AP Moller-Maer­sk made a USD $20 bil­lion prof­it last year — much of it thanks to the hard work and skill of tug work­ers, dock­ers and sea­far­ers. It’s time for Svitzer to recog­nise tug work­ers’ efforts.

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.

Fuel security campaign meets with Government over concerns

The cam­paign for fuel secu­ri­ty met with the Deputy Prime Min­is­ter Hon. Grant Robert­son in Welling­ton yes­ter­day to dis­cuss the immi­nent threat to the future of New Zealand coastal fuel tankers.

Concern over fuel shortage risk as shipping disruptions continue

There are con­cerns in the mar­itime sec­tor that petrol sup­plies could be affect­ed by the same type of ship­ping dis­rup­tions cre­at­ing chaos in oth­er sup­ply chains.

No one is safe until we are all safe

Are you a trans­port work­er? Add your name to the open let­ter from trans­port work­ers call­ing on the UK, Ger­many and Swiss gov­ern­ments to make vac­cines avail­able to all.

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.

Transport plan a chance to rebuild coastal shipping

The Mar­itime Union wel­comes the Government’s trans­port pol­i­cy, which was released today, as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to restore New Zealand’s coastal ship­ping indus­try and repeal sec­tion 198 of the Mar­itime Trans­port Act

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.

Strengthen our shores. Rebuild our coastal shipping. Sign the petition now.

Aotearoa-New Zealand is an island nation depen­dent on trade to sur­vive. But because our coastal ship­ping was dereg­u­lat­ed by the Gov­ern­ment in the 1990’s, we now rely on multi­na­tion­al ship­ping com­pa­nies to car­ry our goods between our cities and beyond. That’s cost us local jobs and valu­able skills, it’s harm­ing our cli­mate by push­ing more […]