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Maritimes magazine Spring 2014 edition online now

The lat­est news and views for mar­itime work­ers

Maritime Union backs change of Government to put workers first

A change of Gov­ern­ment is required to deliv­er secure jobs and decent wages for New Zealand work­ers.

New Zealand maritime workers support PNG Coalition for Good Jobs

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand is back­ing the Coali­tion for Good Jobs in PNG, made up of PNG unions cam­paign­ing keep pub­lic assets in pub­lic own­er­ship.

Get out and vote

Sea­far­ers Ben and Byron are vot­ing in the Gen­er­al Elec­tion in Sep­tem­ber 2014 and hav­ing their say about the Gov­ern­ment.

To find out more about how you can vote or get your work­mates, friends and fam­i­ly vot­ing, vis­it the union web­site www.getoutandvote.org.nz

Vega Auriga should be detained in New Zealand until problems fixed

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Nation­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood says that the ship Vega Auri­ga should be detained in a New Zealand port until it is deemed sea­wor­thy and crew issues have been fixed.

Vale Brad Fletcher, MUNZ Lyttelton Branch President

The Mar­itime Union is great­ly sad­dened by the death of Mar­itime Union Lyt­tel­ton Branch Pres­i­dent Brad Fletch­er in a work­place acci­dent on Thurs­day 28 August 2014. Mar­itime Union Nation­al Sec­re­tary Joe Fleet­wood says the death of Brad Fletch­er, a full-time work­er at the Port of Lyt­tel­ton, was a great shock. Brad was a high­ly respect­ed fig­ure in Lyt­tel­ton and with­in the Mar­itime Union, and the Union would be sup­port­ing his work­mates and fam­i­ly.

Lack of information on Port of Tauranga death extremely concerning

The Mar­itime Union is extreme­ly con­cerned about the lack of pub­lic infor­ma­tion about a Tau­ran­ga port work­er who died last week.

Maritime Union continues to press Ports of Auckland over dirty politics activities

Mar­itime Union Nation­al Pres­i­dent Gar­ry Parsloe says Ports of Auck­land man­age­ment is try­ing to get off the hook from its involve­ment with extreme right wing blog­gers dur­ing the Ports of Auck­land dis­pute. Infor­ma­tion revealed in Nicky Hager’s new book “Dirty Pol­i­tics” shows that the POAL man­age­ment were act­ing in close con­cert with “attack” blog­gers and […]

Hager investigation has revealed Ports of Auckland agenda

Ports of Auck­land must come clean after rev­e­la­tions in Nicky Hager’s new book “Dirty Pol­i­tics.”

Fishing Bill a major step towards fixing industry problems

The Mar­itime Union says the pass­ing of a bill today 31 July 2014 reform­ing the fish­ing indus­try is a major step in fix­ing seri­ous prob­lems.