War on the Wharves 8 – 2 September 2023, Hawaii

An international charity fundraising boxing event hosted by the ILWU and featuring competitors from MUNZA (Australian and NZ joint team!)
Since 2014 MUNZ and the MUA have had char­ity box­ing events on both sides of the Tas­man to raise money for char­ity.
As an exten­sion of this both MUNZ and MUA (MUNZA) are tak­ing a com­bined box­ing team to Hawaii to take on ILWU Loc­al 142 in a char­ity box­ing event in the true spir­it of inter­na­tion­al solid­ar­ity.
In 2019 ILWU Loc­al 142 were con­tac­ted to ask if they would be inter­ested in a char­ity fight night between MUNZA and Loc­al 142. In 2020 an invit­a­tion was sent to MUNZ and MUA for WOTW7 in Hawaii 2020.
Unfor­tu­nately, Cov­id arrived, and the rest is his­tory until now!
Train­ing has star­ted and travel arrange­ments are being made and on Sat­urday 2 Septem­ber 2023 his­tory will be made by the rank-and-file mem­bers from MUNZ and MUA rep­res­ent­ing our uni­ons as MUNZA along with rank-and-file mem­bers from ILWU Loc­al 142 togeth­er we will have the first Pacific char­ity fight night.

War on the Wharves 8 New Zea­l­and con­tact MUNZ Nation­al Pres­id­ent Carl Find­lay 021760887

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