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Agreement reached with Lyttelton Port Company

Lyt­tel­ton Port Com­pa­ny and the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand have reached an agree­ment in prin­ci­ple, and all upcom­ing strike notices are with­drawn. 

War on the Wharves: Spanish Dock Workers Fight Government

Span­ish ports are bat­ten­ing down the hatch­es, brac­ing for mas­sive union strikes against a right-wing gov­ern­ment deter­mined to impose casu­al­i­sa­tion at any cost. 

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Prime Min­is­ter Bill Eng­lish began his reign with a dubi­ous promise. On Decem­ber 12th last year he told us his gov­ern­ment will ‘sup­port unions’. That’ll make a nice change. After eight years of John Key’s anti-work­er poli­cies kick­ing us in the teeth and bleed­ing us dry, a friend­ly gov­ern­ment will be a wel­come change indeed. […]

Maritime workers gather for 2016 National Conference

The fifth con­fer­ence of the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is being held from 8–11 Novem­ber in Welling­ton.

Maritime women and youth united

Youth and women union­ists meet­ing in Welling­ton brings togeth­er emerg­ing lead­ers for mar­itime work­ers

Helen Kelly, friend and leader to New Zealand workers

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand mourns the death of union leader Helen Kel­ly, aged 52.

Maritime women and maritime youth hold organising seminar

Youth and women work­ers from the mar­itime indus­try through­out New Zealand attend­ed the inau­gur­al Mar­itime Women and Youth Sem­i­nar in Welling­ton on 8 July 2016.

International day of action for dockers

On 7 July 2016 the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion and Inter­na­tion­al Dock­work­ers’ Coun­cil are organ­is­ing to observe a glob­al day of action that recog­nis­es the impor­tant con­tri­bu­tion dock­work­ers make to the glob­al econ­o­my, the risks they face at work every day and their grow­ing con­cerns for the future regard­ing attacks on their work­ing con­di­tions.

Stop the clock on back pay loss

A mas­sive pay­roll error means New Zealan­ders are owed bil­lions in hol­i­day back­pay.
But every day a mil­lion dol­lars of that debt is being writ­ten off as it pass­es the six year statute of lim­i­ta­tions. Tell the gov­ern­ment to stop the clock on the write-off while we get this prob­lem fixed.

Memorial Service for T.S.M.V Kaitawa

A memo­r­i­al ser­vice will be held to com­mem­o­rate the 50th anniver­sary of the sink­ing of the col­lier MV Kaitawa off Cape Rein­ga on 23 May 1966 with the loss of all 29 crew mem­bers, one of New Zealand’s worst mar­itime dis­as­ters.