South Port faces strike action
South Port in Bluff is facing strike action after port workers rejected a pay offer from management.
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Maritime Union of New Zealand
Representing New Zealand maritime workers since 2002
Red Sea situation highlights need for New Zealand shipping
The conflict in the Red Sea highlights the need to build up New Zealand crewed and flagged shipping to overcome supply chain disruptions.
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Is Santa Brown coming to town – or is port sale a plan fit for a Grinch?
Mr Harrison says if the Port of Auckland is sold, it would be ‘Christmas every day’ for the new owners – as it had been in Australia, where extra port fees from private operators were hitting business and consumers hard.
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Message from the Maritime Union of New Zealand
Merry Christmas – Meri Kirihimete and Happy New Year to our members, families and friends of the Union here and around the world.
The struggle for a better world continues.
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Cutting ferry investment to subsidise property speculators is economic sabotage
The cost of the Government’s tax cuts for landlords will be many times more than the investment required for the much-needed Cook Strait ferry upgrade.
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Aucklanders – including government voters – strongly reject Auckland port privatisation
New Talbot Mills polling on behalf of the Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) shows a vast majority of Aucklanders are against the proposal to privatise the Auckland Port – including a majority of voters for each of the current coalition government parties.
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Vale Mike Will
Local 43 executive member comrade Mike Will of Lyttelton passed away on the evening of Sunday 17 December after a very brief illness. Our thoughts are with his family at this sad time, vale Mike Will.
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