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Government Gambling with Safety – keep an Emergency Tug on Cook Strait!

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) is urgent­ly call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to reverse its deci­sion to ter­mi­nate the con­tract for the MMA Vision, the only ded­i­cat­ed emer­gency ocean response ves­sel cur­rent­ly pro­tect­ing the Cook Strait.

Powerful Global Alliance aims to Halt Job-Killing Port Automation

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Nation­al Sec­re­tary Carl Find­lay was a sig­na­to­ry to the his­toric “Lis­bon Sum­mit Res­o­lu­tion” signed this week in Lis­bon, Por­tu­gal, at a spe­cial Anti-Automa­tion Con­fer­ence of the Inter­na­tion­al Dock­work­ers Coun­cil.

Napier Port automation may come at high cost

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says the intro­duc­tion of self-dri­ving trucks at Port of Napi­er is a risky move, cit­ing the dis­as­trous con­se­quences of the Ports of Auck­land (POAL) automa­tion project as a cau­tion­ary tale for the indus­try.

‘Port productivity’ has answers that corporate interests would rather ignore

New Zealand’s sup­ply chain vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty has its roots in the lack of a nation­al ports and coastal ship­ping strat­e­gy.

Vale Murray Sidaway

It is with deep sad­ness that we acknowl­edge the pass­ing of Mur­ray Sid­away.

Wellington Stopwork Meeting 12 August 2024

To all mem­bers, the Welling­ton Te Whanganui-a-Tara Branch Stop­work Meet­ing will be held on Mon­day 12 August 10am-12 noon at MUNZ Con­fer­ence Room, Lev­el One, Water­side House, 220 Willis Street.

Maritime Union acknowledges death of Efeso Collins

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has paid trib­ute to Green MP Fa’anana Efe­so Collins who has died in Auck­land.

Is Santa Brown coming to town – or is port sale a plan fit for a Grinch?

Mr Har­ri­son says if the Port of Auck­land is sold, it would be ‘Christ­mas every day’ for the new own­ers – as it had been in Aus­tralia, where extra port fees from pri­vate oper­a­tors were hit­ting busi­ness and con­sumers hard.

Stand Up for Fair Pay Agreements!

This week the Gov­ern­ment plans to take away hope for hun­dreds of thou­sands of New Zealand work­ers by leg­is­lat­ing Fair Pay Agree­ments out of exis­tence.
Join us to Stand Up for Fair Pay!

Rally for NZ Coastal Shipping – Wellington

MUNZ Welling­ton Branch ral­ly for coastal ship­ping, out­side Welling­ton Rail­way Sta­tion, meet­ing 1200 Fri­day 17 Novem­ber