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Ports management disregard for privacy deeply disturbing.

It is deeply dis­turb­ing that Ports of Auck­land is pre­pared to spread con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion from indi­vid­ual per­son­nel files as part of a PR cam­paign against their work­ers’ cam­paign for secure jobs, the CTU said today.

Mayor, Church mediation offers in Ports dispute warmly welcomed

The Mar­itime Union has warm­ly wel­comed an offer of medi­a­tion from the May­or of Auck­land Len Brown, and the Angli­can and Roman Catholic bish­ops, made pub­licly over the last two days.

Public rally backs secure work and sustainable Ports

Auck­lan­ders want­i­ng to make a stand against casu­al­i­sa­tion of work are being invit­ed to join Ports of Auck­land work­ers at a com­mu­ni­ty ral­ly this after­noon.

Simple question Maersk – were the navigation systems on or off?

The Mar­itime Union says it is not sat­is­fied with the response from ship­ping com­pa­ny Maer­sk over its nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems on two ships last week, and will be lay­ing a com­plaint with Mar­itime NZ.

Rena-style navigation interference at play in Ports dispute

Lessons from the Rena dis­as­ter clear­ly haven’t been learnt, as new evi­dence emerges of delib­er­ate attempts by ship­ping com­pa­ny Maer­sk to inter­fere with the nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems of two ships arriv­ing into Auck­land dur­ing the cur­rent Ports dis­pute. Mar­itime work­ers track­ing coastal ship­ping move­ments noticed that the Irenes Rem­e­dy and Maer­sk Aberdeen have in recent days […]

Port contracting out proposal unlawful — union

The Mar­itime Union says that the Ports of Auck­land deci­sion to dis­miss its work­force is unlaw­ful, and work­ers will chal­lenge it. The Mar­itime Union has asked the Employ­ment Court for a rul­ing on whether Port man­age­ment dis­miss­ing its work­force, while in nego­ti­a­tions over an employ­ment agree­ment for those jobs, is against the law, MUNZ Nation­al […]

Maritime Union offer to continue mediation

The Mar­itime Union believes that a small amount of progress was made at medi­a­tion with Ports of Auck­land man­age­ment over Thurs­day and Fri­day this week.

Ports of Auckland families tell their story in online video

Ports of Auck­land work­ers and their fam­i­lies strug­gling to defend secure jobs and their liveli­hoods have tak­en their mes­sage to the peo­ple in a three minute online video.

Second week of full strike action announced at Ports of Auckland

The Mar­itime Union has announced ongo­ing strike action at Ports of Auck­land.

Seven day full strike for Ports of Auckland

The Mar­itime Union has this after­noon placed a new 7 day full strike notice on the Ports of Auck­land.