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.