Category: Media releases

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.

More accidents follow calls for national inquiry into port safety

Two seri­ous port acci­dents have occurred since the Mar­itime Union renewed its calls for a nation­al inquiry into New Zealand’s port safe­ty.

Maritime industry inquiry into health and safety required to “shine a light on dark places”

The Mar­itime Union is con­tin­u­ing its call for a nation­al inquiry into port and mar­itime safe­ty.

Maritime Union members ratify collective employment agreement with Ports of Auckland Limited

Mar­itime Union mem­bers at the Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed have rat­i­fied a pro­posed agree­ment with their employ­er.

Defend the Right to Strike

Employ­er groups around the world try to under­mine the right to strike. Join the glob­al action on Feb­ru­ary 18 to stop them.

ITF urges health and safety focus as NZ port operator found responsible for dock death

The Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion is reit­er­at­ing the need for strin­gent health and safe­ty mea­sures in ports after an oper­a­tor in New Zealand was found respon­si­ble for a water­side work­ers death. A Welling­ton court ruled in Jan­u­ary 2015 that steve­dor­ing com­pa­ny Cen­tre­Port was to blame for the death of Mark Samoa who was a mem­ber of the […]

New Zealand seafarers welcome New Zealand adopting Maritime Labour Convention

The Mar­itime Labour Con­ven­tion 2006 (MLC) is an inter­na­tion­al treaty adopt­ed by the Inter­na­tion­al Labour Organ­i­sa­tion and lays out min­i­mum rights for sea­far­ers and pro­motes good employ­ment prac­tices across the ship­ping indus­try.

Progress on Ports of Auckland agreement 

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says good progress has been made towards the set­tle­ment of a Col­lec­tive Employ­ment Agree­ment with Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed (POAL).

Tauranga port happy to take the money – but not happy to accept responsibility for workers

Com­ments from a Port of Tau­ran­ga man­ag­er about deaths and injuries in their port dur­ing a Radio New Zealand inter­view are unac­cept­able.

KPI to enter into regional federation

Indonesia’s Sea­far­er Union, Kesat­u­an Pelaut Indon­sia (KPI) has agreed to enter into a fed­er­a­tion with trans­port unions from Papua New Guinea, Aus­tralia and New Zealand after a for­ma­tive meet­ing in Kupang, Indone­sia.