Category: Information

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 […]

ITF unions meet to shape the Future of Work

Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) unions from around the world are gath­er­ing in Stock­holm, Swe­den for the first meet­ing of the federation’s new automa­tion work­ing group.

War on the Wharves: Spanish Dock Workers Fight Government

Span­ish ports are bat­ten­ing down the hatch­es, brac­ing for mas­sive union strikes against a right-wing gov­ern­ment deter­mined to impose casu­al­i­sa­tion at any cost. 

Maritime workers gather for 2016 National Conference

The fifth con­fer­ence of the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is being held from 8–11 Novem­ber in Welling­ton.

Maritime women and youth united

Youth and women union­ists meet­ing in Welling­ton brings togeth­er emerg­ing lead­ers for mar­itime work­ers

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.

65th anniversary of the 1951 waterfront lockout

On 13 Feb­ru­ary 1951, New Zealand’s most sig­nif­i­cant indus­tri­al dis­pute began. For 151 days the most advanced sec­tions of the New Zealand work­ing class led by the water­siders fought a tough bat­tle against employ­ers and the State. The fol­low­ing doc­u­men­tary from 2001 is essen­tial view­ing of this land­mark in New Zealand work­ing class his­to­ry.

MUNZ members take the White Ribbon pledge

25 Novem­ber is the Unit­ed Nations end vio­lence against women day 2015. Here’s what Mar­itime Union mem­bers are doing to sup­port the cam­paign.

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.

Petition to remember the “Doris Disaster”

Ten water­sider work­ers at Napi­er died in 1932 in this mar­itime tragedy. Some of their descen­dants now have a peti­tion online to rename a local land­mark in their mem­o­ry.