Maritime Union offers solidarity to Japan

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has offered its sym­pa­thy and sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of Japan fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake and tsuna­mi of 11 March.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood says the dis­as­ter has hit many coastal and port com­mu­ni­ties and the Union had been in touch with mar­itime unions in Japan.

There were close ties between mar­itime work­ers in the two coun­tries, and the sup­port offered by Japan to New Zealand in the recent Christchurch earth­quake must be rec­i­p­ro­cat­ed.

Infor­ma­tion on what unions are doing, and what you can do, to help can be found at the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion or at Labourstart.