Finance Minister Nicola Willis wants to replace rail-enabled publicly owned interisland ferries with ones that don’t carry rail freight and are owned and operated with some kind of privatisation.
We urgently need to tell her and her government’s coalition partners that the only option we will accept are publicly owned ferries that are rail-enabled.
They are our ferries. This is our future.
Sign the petition here!
https://www.together.org.nz/our_ferries_our_future
The Maritime Union of New Zealand was formed in 2002 when the New Zealand Waterfront Workers’ Union and the New Zealand Seafarers’ Union joined together. We represent waterfront workers, seafarers and related workers in New Zealand.
The Maritime Union of New Zealand has welcomed support from Labour, the Greens and the Alliance for its election policy proposals to rebuild coastal shipping and protect the pay and conditions of New Zealand port workers and seafarers.
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