Category: Media releases

Maritime workers recover crews’ wages in New Zealand ITF week of action

Tens of thou­sands of dol­lars of out­stand­ing pay for sea­far­ers is in the process of recov­ery after action last week by the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) in New Zealand ports. Del­e­ga­tions of dock­work­ers and sea­far­ers rep­re­sent­ing the ITF vis­it­ed five ves­sels in New Zealand ports as part of a week long Flag of Con­ve­nience / […]

Progress of FCV “slave ships” Bill is good news – but much work remains to be done.

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says the progress of the “slave ships” Bill in the New Zealand Par­lia­ment is good news – but much work remains to be done.

Maritime unions gather to strengthen South Pacific unionism

Mar­itime Unions have met in Auck­land to work towards a Region­al Mar­itime Fed­er­a­tion to build union strength through­out the South Pacif­ic.

National mobilisation against TPPA on Saturday 29 March: 15 towns & cities

A nation­al day of action to stop the Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship Agree­ment will take place on Sat­ur­day 29 March 2014.

Ratification of global fisheries agreement a positive step

The Mar­itime Union says the rat­i­fi­ca­tion of a new glob­al fish­eries agree­ment by the New Zealand Gov­ern­ment is pos­i­tive news, but New Zealand still has a long way to go to fix sys­temic prob­lems in the fish­ing sec­tor.

Serious incident on fishing vessel confirms fears

A seri­ous injury to a Gov­ern­ment fish­eries observ­er shows the clean up of the fish­ing indus­try is not mov­ing fast enough.

Sorrow at death of Lyttelton watersider

Mar­itime Union calls for meet­ing with port employ­ers and Gov­ern­ment agen­cies to dis­cuss health and safe­ty con­cerns.

Maritime Union backs calls for shipping lanes

The union that rep­re­sents New Zealand ship­ping crews is back­ing calls for manda­to­ry ship­ping lanes on the New Zealand coast.

Maritime Union pays respects to Nelson Mandela and his legacy

New Zealand sea­far­ers and water­front work­ers were long­time sup­port­ers of the bat­tle against apartheid.

Asia-Pacific union leaders gather in Port Moresby to kick off regional maritime federation

Mar­itime union lead­ers from across the Asia-Pacif­ic region will chart out the future of a pro­posed region­al mar­itime fed­er­a­tion in a high lev­el meet­ing con­ven­ing on Novem­ber 13 in Port Mores­by, Papua New Guinea.