Do Minister Stanford’s comments on Kiwi jobs apply to seafarers on the MV Buffalo?
Maritime Union of New Zealand National Secretary Carl Findlay says the Government is dithering while New Zealand seafarer jobs are on the chopping block.
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Maritime Union of New Zealand National Secretary Carl Findlay says the Government is dithering while New Zealand seafarer jobs are on the chopping block.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union says that the responsibility for the Rena disaster lies with Government and authorities as much as with individual crew members.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union is calling for the abandonment of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, describing the free trade plan as a “sell out to global corporations.”
Read MoreThe Maritime Union says that its fears about short-term casual labour being introduced into New Zealand have been confirmed.
Maritime Union General Secretary Trevor Hanson says the introduction of more cheap foreign labour into the New Zealand fishing industry is the death knell for New Zealand fishing employment.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union is concerned that a group of overseas workers are living on the Lyttelton waterfront in converted containers.
Read MoreMaritime Union General Secretary Trevor Hanson says there are two major issues at stake – firstly the status of imported workers doing jobs on the waterfront, but living aboard ships, and a second issue of safety and working conditions.
He says it appears that employers are now trying to get around immigration regulations by accommodating workers on board overseas ships, then getting them down the gangplank to work within New Zealand each day.
Mr Hanson says the workers were moved from their current accommodation in converted containers on the waterfront because the Lyttelton Port Company did not believe they were situated safely.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union says a plan by the Department of Labour to track down ship jumping crews by employing a private investigator is questionable at the least.
Maritime Union General Secretary Trevor Hanson says that private investigators may be in favour of the plan as it will ensure an endless income stream for them in the future, but it would not solve ship jumping.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union says the Department of Labour’s stance on two Vietnamese fishermen who have jumped ship in Nelson is unacceptable.
Maritime Union General Secretary Trevor Hanson says the Department of Labour has stated in the media it will not act until formally notified by the fishing vessel charterers that crew members are missing.
“In this case, the two missing crew members have obviously jumped ship from the Sky 75, like the ten Indonesian crew members before them, and these two fishermen are probably living rough.”
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