Category: Media releases

Successful resolution for Australian port workers at DP World 

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has offered its con­grat­u­la­tions to the Mar­itime Union of Aus­tralia for the suc­cess­ful res­o­lu­tion of the indus­tri­al dis­pute at DP World ter­mi­nals.

New Zealand maritime workers support Australian workers at DP World

Aus­tralian port work­ers at DP World have the full sup­port of New Zealand mar­itime work­ers.

Port strike in Bluff called off

Work­ers at port com­pa­ny South­port were plan­ning to walk off the job this morn­ing for 48 hours, but last minute nego­ti­a­tions result­ed in a pos­i­tive out­come.

Maritime Union opposes Red Sea military involvement 

The Mar­itime Union is oppos­ing the deci­sion by the coali­tion Gov­ern­ment to send a detach­ment of New Zealand mil­i­tary to the Red Sea, after a request from the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca.

Prosecution exposes lack of Government ferry plan  

The Mar­itime Union is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to review its deci­sion to dump planned new Cook Strait fer­ries after the pros­e­cu­tion of a fer­ry oper­a­tor.

South Port faces strike action

South Port in Bluff is fac­ing strike action after port work­ers reject­ed a pay offer from man­age­ment.

Red Sea situation highlights need for New Zealand shipping

The con­flict in the Red Sea high­lights the need to build up New Zealand crewed and flagged ship­ping to over­come sup­ply chain dis­rup­tions.

Cutting ferry investment to subsidise property speculators is economic sabotage

The cost of the Government’s tax cuts for land­lords will be many times more than the invest­ment required for the much-need­ed Cook Strait fer­ry upgrade.

Aucklanders – including government voters – strongly reject Auckland port privatisation

New Tal­bot Mills polling on behalf of the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) shows a vast major­i­ty of Auck­lan­ders are against the pro­pos­al to pri­va­tise the Auck­land Port – includ­ing a major­i­ty of vot­ers for each of the cur­rent coali­tion gov­ern­ment par­ties.

Ferry unions demand Finance Minister resign over Cook Strait debacle

Four unions rep­re­sent­ing mar­itime and rail work­ers have con­demned the Government’s deci­sion to effec­tive­ly can­cel the Cook Strait iRex fer­ry upgrade project, and are demand­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the Min­is­ter of Finance for the deci­sion.