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Maritime Union members at the Ports of Auckland have ratified their collective employment agreement with Ports of Auckland.
The new agreement was ratified by a meeting of members at the Ports on Thursday 25 June 2009.
The agreement will be signed next week. Details of the agreement are being kept confidential.
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The Maritime Union says a plan to make Ports of Auckland workers redundant will be met with a strong response.
A national executive meeting of the Maritime Union held in Wellington today endorsed national action in support of the workers whose jobs are threatened at Ports of Auckland.
Representatives of the Auckland workers addressed the national meeting which unanimously endorsed industrial and legal strategies to fight job losses.
Read MoreMembers of the Maritime Union are staging a protest today on board a vessel at the Ports of Auckland.
Maritime Union Auckland Seafarers Branch Secretary Garry Parsloe says the crew members started their protest on the trans-Tasman freighter Rotoiti at the Ports of Auckland Bledisloe Terminal at 7am this morning Saturday 4 November 2006.
He says the crew are drawing attention to the fact that when the Rotoiti is withdrawn from service on 26 November, it will be the end of the last New Zealand crewed ship working on the trans-Tasman trade.
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