Maritime Union mourns death of Wellington member

Uni­on mem­bers and fel­low work­ers around New Zea­l­and mourn the loss of a friend, col­league and com­rade who died yes­ter­day in Wel­ling­ton Hos­pit­al. 

The 60-year-old man suffered severe head injur­ies while work­ing at Centre­Port on Tues­day 31^st Janu­ary.

MUNZ will sup­port with every means at its dis­pos­al the invest­ig­a­tions now tak­ing place into how this tragedy occurred.

“Yet anoth­er work­er has died on the job in New Zea­l­and, and that’s not good enough,” says Nation­al Sec­ret­ary Joe Fleet­wood.

“Nobody should lose their life while try­ing to earn a liv­ing.”

His com­ments were seconded by Assist­ant Wel­ling­ton Branch Sec­ret­ary John Whit­ing.

“The water­front industry by its very nature is a high haz­ard work­place,” says Mr Whit­ing.

“Safe work prac­tices must be rig­or­ously imple­men­ted and enforced, both by man­age­ment and by organ­ized work­ers ourselves. Oth­er­wise the worst can hap­pen.”

All Mari­time Uni­on mem­bers express their deep­est sym­pathy to our late member’s fam­ily and loved ones.