Category: Information

Health and safety reforms must not be watered down

The Gov­ern­ment must get the Health and Safe­ty Reform Bill back on track and not water down its cen­tral pro­tec­tions for work­ers.

Vale Peter Conway, a friend of workers

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand pass­es its sol­i­dar­i­ty and con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly and friends of Peter Con­way, who died on 9 June 2015. Peter was a long stand­ing advo­cate for work­ers, most promi­nent­ly dur­ing his time as CTU Sec­re­tary, and was a good friend to the Mar­itime Union and its mem­bers. We note his […]

Sign the petition against zero hour contracts

The Mar­itime Union is sup­port­ing the cam­paign against zero hour con­tracts. Please sign the Labour Par­ty peti­tion here.

Get out and vote

Sea­far­ers Ben and Byron are vot­ing in the Gen­er­al Elec­tion in Sep­tem­ber 2014 and hav­ing their say about the Gov­ern­ment.

To find out more about how you can vote or get your work­mates, friends and fam­i­ly vot­ing, vis­it the union web­site www.getoutandvote.org.nz

Vale Brad Fletcher, MUNZ Lyttelton Branch President

The Mar­itime Union is great­ly sad­dened by the death of Mar­itime Union Lyt­tel­ton Branch Pres­i­dent Brad Fletch­er in a work­place acci­dent on Thurs­day 28 August 2014. Mar­itime Union Nation­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood says the death of Brad Fletch­er, a full-time work­er at the Port of Lyt­tel­ton, was a great shock. Brad was a high­ly respect­ed fig­ure in Lyt­tel­ton and with­in the Mar­itime Union, and the Union would be sup­port­ing his work­mates and fam­i­ly.

Get out and vote

It’s easy to sign up with the union movement’s Get Out and Vote cam­paign!

A balanced approach to offshore development

]The Mar­itime Union sup­ports the respon­si­ble devel­op­ment of the off­shore indus­try, both for oil and gas, and min­er­al resources.

War on the Wharves 3

For the first time, a squad of MUNZ mem­bers from the north to the south will be fac­ing off against their MUA com­rades in the South Paci­fic’s pre­miere mar­itime box­ing fix­ture.

Ports of Auckland dispute newsletter 21 August 2013

Ports of Auck­land dis­pute newslet­ter 21 August 2013 (PDF, 889 Kb)

New Zealand maritime workers played a leading role in supporting the UK miners in their darkest hour, under savage attack from the Thatcher Tory Government

The sto­ry of how New Zealand sea­men donat­ed tens of thou­sands of dol­lars and sent a secret con­tain­er of 18,100 pounds of lamb to the UK min­ers in 1984/1985.