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Death at Ports of Auckland

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is very sad to report the death of a work­er at Wal­lace Invest­ments steve­dores at the Ports of Auck­land this morn­ing Tues­day 19 April 2022.

Loss of coastal tankers a severe blow to New Zealand maritime industry

Unions rep­re­sent­ing ship crews says the removal of two New Zealand coastal tankers by petrol com­pa­nies is dis­ap­point­ing and has dam­aged New Zealand’s mar­itime indus­try.

New Zealand will then be com­plete­ly reliant on over­seas ship­ping to sup­ply our fuel – with no back­up.

Support P & O seafarers

On March 17, P&O Fer­ries in the UK sacked 800 sea­far­ers with 30 min­utes notice over a pre-record­ed Zoom call. Add your sup­port now for these work­ers by sign­ing the online peti­tion!

Call on Svitzer to stop attacking tug workers

Com­pa­nies like Svitzer are dri­ving a race to the bot­tom in the tug sec­tor. We know that tug work­ers and their fam­i­lies are pay­ing the price of aggres­sive employ­er tac­tics like Svitzer’s. Longer hours. Low­er pay. More acci­dents at work. Our glob­al union fam­i­ly won’t stand for this. Espe­cial­ly not when com­pa­nies like AP Moller-Maer­sk made a USD $20 bil­lion prof­it last year — much of it thanks to the hard work and skill of tug work­ers, dock­ers and sea­far­ers. It’s time for Svitzer to recog­nise tug work­ers’ efforts.

ITF Dockers unite against Putin’s Ukraine invasion

Fol­low­ing last week’s call from trans­port unions for an imme­di­ate cease­fire to the con­flict in Ukraine, the glob­al labour move­ment and inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty has stood stead­fast in their con­dem­na­tion of the war and call for peace.

Out of touch Luxon demands that poorest pay

Union view: Nation­al eco­nom­ic agen­da is out of touch and would only boost debt, pump up infla­tion and make it hard­er for mid­dle income and work­ing New Zealan­ders to get ahead.