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 joins rallies and digs deep in Telecom lines engineers dispute
The Maritime Union has upped its industrial and financial support of Telecom lines engineers in their employment dispute.
Maritime Union General Secretary Trevor Hanson says a national meeting of Union representatives from ports and ships this morning voted an initial $10,000 to support Telecom lines engineers in their struggle for secure jobs.
Maritime Union members from New Zealand ships and the waterfront joined rallies in Auckland and Wellington this morning alongside the lines engineers and other supporters.
Read MorePort Otago workers reject company restructuring proposal
A combined union meeting at Port Otago today voted to reject new restructuring proposals from Port Otago management.
Around 200 union members attended a stopwork meeting at 1pm which halted work around the port and packed the Union hall in one of the largest meetings of recent years.
Read MoreMaritime Union backs Progressive workers battle
The Maritime Union is supporting locked out members of the National Distribution Union at Progressive Enterprises sites in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch.
Maritime Union General Secretary Trevor Hanson says the Union has committed itself to financial, practical and moral support for the workers and their pickets.
He says the situation is a serious one because it showed how multinational corporates in New Zealand are determined to create a low-wage economy.
Read MoreMaritime Union supports hunger strike by Ukrainian crew
The Maritime Union says a hunger strike by striking Ukrainian crew members in Lyttelton is a “symptom of the disease of exploitation in the fishing industry.”
Four crew members of the eight crew remaining aboard the fishing vessel “Malakhov Kurgan” are locking themselves in a cabin and are going on an indefinite hunger strike.
They are protesting about not being paid the wages that are owed to them under New Zealand law.
Read MoreUkrainian crew’s onboard protest in Lyttelton backed by Maritime Union
The Maritime Union says that a group of Ukrainian fishermen in Lyttelton are victims of the lack of regulation of
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