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Government ports report narrow and biased

The Mar­itime Union has attacked what it describes as the “nar­row­ness of vision” in yet anoth­er report into the state of New Zealand’s ports.

Kaikoura slip shows the importance of coastal shipping

The run­down of New Zealand coastal ship­ping is threat­en­ing New Zealand’s capa­bil­i­ty to deal with the social and eco­nom­ic fall­out from nat­ur­al dis­as­ters.

Deaths of fishing crew members a maritime tragedy

The Mar­itime Union says the con­firmed death of three Indone­sian crew mem­bers miss­ing after sink­ing of a fish­ing ves­sel Oyang 70 is a tragedy.

The reality of National’s “90 day fire at will” laws

Heather Smith tells the sto­ry of how she was unfair­ly dis­missed under John Key’s new 90 day law.

Maritimes magazine Winter 2010 online now

The Win­ter 2010 edi­tion of the Mar­itimes mag­a­zine is now avail­able online to down­load.

National anti-worker attack will be resisted

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says Nation­al’s announce­ment of attacks on work­ers rights will be fought hard.

Rail campaign Dunedin meeting attracts positive public response

A pub­lic meet­ing in South Dunedin on Mon­day 12 July to sup­port the cam­paign to build new trains for Auck­land in New Zealand work­shops attract­ed around 50 peo­ple.

New Zealand unions protest Mexican government’s use of force against striking workers

New Zealand unions includ­ing the Mar­itime Union deliv­ered a let­ter to offi­cials of the Mex­i­can Embassy express­ing con­cern at the use of force against Mex­i­can work­ers.

It’ll ruin us!

Aussie Min­ing cor­po­ra­tions com­plain­ing about new super prof­it tax – heard it all before?

National budget an attack on working class

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says today’s bud­get is an attack on work­ing class New Zealan­ders.