Category: Media releases

Maersk should be employing New Zealand seafarers for its new local service

An inter­na­tion­al ship­per is threat­en­ing the future of New Zealand coastal ship­ping by exploit­ing legal loop­holes.

Maritime workers welcome statements from Mayor and Minister on Ports of Auckland health and safety

The Mar­itime Union has wel­comed com­ments from the May­or of Auck­land Phil Goff and Min­is­ter of Work­place Rela­tions and Safe­ty, Michael Wood, that they expect major changes at the Ports when the new Auck­land Coun­cil-com­mis­sioned safe­ty report is released.

Latest Ports of Auckland automation bungle shows project needs to go on ice

The Mar­itime Union says Ports of Auck­land needs to cut its loss­es and put its automa­tion project on hold to alle­vi­ate pres­sure on New Zealand busi­ness­es.

New conviction for death shows health and safety crisis in the waterfront industry

Steve­dor­ing employ­er ISO’s neg­li­gence led to the death of a young woman employ­ee in 2018. This is a symp­tom of the health and safe­ty cri­sis on the New Zealand water­front.

COVID threat in New Zealand ports has a solution

The union rep­re­sent­ing sea­far­ers and port work­ers says the lat­est case of COVID-19 in a New Zealand port is a con­cern, but the prob­lem has a solu­tion.

Ports of Auckland management COVID-19 story “embarrassing” 

Claims by Ports of Auck­land that Gov­ern­ment quar­an­tine reg­u­la­tions are to blame for their fail­ures are embar­rass­ing and should be with­drawn.

Ports of Auckland management decisions behind delays

The Mar­itime Union is ques­tion­ing the rea­sons pro­vid­ed for ongo­ing delays at the Ports of Auck­land and says there is a need for an hon­est con­ver­sa­tion about what has gone wrong at the port.

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.

Business award for Ports of Auckland Board Chair must be returned

This week on Thurs­day 3 Decem­ber, the chair of the Board for Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed, Liz Coutts, was pre­sent­ed with an Deloitte Top 200 award for Chair­per­son of the Year in recog­ni­tion of busi­ness excel­lence and lead­er­ship.

Maritime Union demands tougher penalties for reckless managers

The Mar­itime Union wants man­agers and board chairs held indi­vid­u­al­ly account­able for work­place deaths.