Category: Events

Women’s Conference 2021

After months of plan­ning along­side, a strong group of 24 MUNZ Women from around New Zealand attend­ed the Coun­cil of Trade Unions Bian­nu­al Women’s Con­fer­ence in Welling­ton on 19 and 20 July 2021.

Fight Night! Clash of the Comrades, Coming Soon

  Con­tact your branch about tick­ets, or con­tact event organ­is­er (and MUNZ Nation­al Pres­i­dent) Carl Find­lay direct­ly.

We Remember: September 3rd is Merchant Navy Day

Dur­ing the Sec­ond World War, thou­sands of New Zealand sea­far­ers vol­un­teered to serve in the Mer­chant Navy.

Vale Brother Hanafi Rustandi

Nation­al Sec­re­tary Pad­dy Crum­lin and Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of MUNZ Joe Fleet­wood sad­ly report that friend and com­rade of the MUA, MUNZ and the ITF and long term leader of the Indone­sian Sea­far­ers Union and ITF Asia Pacif­ic chair Hanafi Rus­tan­di has passed away sud­den­ly in Tokyo where the ITF Dock­ers and Sea­far­ers nego­ti­at­ing team is […]

Maritime women and maritime youth hold organising seminar

Youth and women work­ers from the mar­itime indus­try through­out New Zealand attend­ed the inau­gur­al Mar­itime Women and Youth Sem­i­nar in Welling­ton on 8 July 2016.

International day of action for dockers

On 7 July 2016 the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion and Inter­na­tion­al Dock­work­ers’ Coun­cil are organ­is­ing to observe a glob­al day of action that recog­nis­es the impor­tant con­tri­bu­tion dock­work­ers make to the glob­al econ­o­my, the risks they face at work every day and their grow­ing con­cerns for the future regard­ing attacks on their work­ing con­di­tions.

Memorial Service for T.S.M.V Kaitawa

A memo­r­i­al ser­vice will be held to com­mem­o­rate the 50th anniver­sary of the sink­ing of the col­lier MV Kaitawa off Cape Rein­ga on 23 May 1966 with the loss of all 29 crew mem­bers, one of New Zealand’s worst mar­itime dis­as­ters.

TPPA: Kiwis say it ain’t over. Don’t sign!

This week­end thou­sands of New Zealan­ders will join ral­lies, march­es, pic­nics and protests at four­teen actions nation­wide to call on the gov­ern­ment to reject the TPPA.

Perth protest rally targets oil and gas giant Chevron’s New Zealand operation

A large and noisy ral­ly tar­get­ing off­shore hydro­car­bon cor­po­ra­tion Chevron has tak­en place out­side the New Zealand con­sulate in Perth on the morn­ing of Tues­day 12 May 2015.

7 March 2015 — Nationwide Day of Action Against TPPA 

The Mar­itime Union is sup­port­ing the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al cam­paign against the TPPA (Trans Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship Agree­ment) that under­mines work­ers rights and demo­c­ra­t­ic process­es.