Category: Information

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.

Testing and returning to work during Omicron

Offi­cial Gov­ern­ment advice on test­ing and return­ing to work dur­ing Omi­cron at this link.

We are the Union

Find out more about the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand.

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.

Vale John Coombs

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has paid trib­ute to for­mer Mar­itime Union of Aus­tralia Nation­al Sec­re­tary John Coombs, who died on 1 Sep­tem­ber 2021.

Maritime Union statement on port worker vaccination

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Nation­al Sec­re­tary Craig Har­ri­son says mis­in­for­ma­tion is threat­en­ing health and safe­ty in ports.

COVID: Looking after your mental wellbeing

It’s all right not to be all right. COVID-19 has had a sig­nif­i­cant impact on how we inter­act with oth­ers, our work, study and many oth­er aspects of our dai­ly lives. Every­one reacts dif­fer­ent­ly to dif­fi­cult events, and some may find this time more chal­leng­ing than oth­ers.

Posthumous medal applications – Merchant Navy

To make a posthu­mous Medal Appli­ca­tion to the NZ Defence Force for World War 2 medals for your Grand­fa­ther, a sea­man and mem­ber of the NZ Seaman’s Union, crew­ing on a ship of the ‘mer­chant navy of New Zealand’ on New Zealand coastal voy­ages, dur­ing World War 2.

MUNZ Statement on Vaccination

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Incor­po­rat­ed Nation­al Coun­cil Meet­ing held on the 11–12 August 2021 rec­om­mends and sup­ports our mem­bers being vac­ci­nat­ed for the Covid 19 virus.

But also recog­nis­es the free­dom of choice for our mem­bers and encour­ages them to make an informed deci­sion.

Important COVID vaccination information for Port of Tauranga workers

The Government’s lat­est bor­der order makes Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion com­pul­so­ry for some groups of port work­ers (those sub­ject to the cur­rent test­ing require­ments).