Thursday, 17 December 2020, 9:55 am
Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ), and the Rail and
Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) joint media
release
Workers at Port Otago are going on the front
foot in a public campaign to change aggressive management
tactics which are threatening the future of the region’s
export hub.
A meeting on Wednesday 16 December of over
one hundred members of the combined port unions, the
Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ), and the Rail and
Maritime Transport Union (RMTU), unanimously passed a motion
that ‘This meeting of Combined Unions at Port Otago call
upon management to abandon their aggressive approach to
It s taken a while but the union and the company have worked well together to reach agreement on the relatively few matters outstanding, said union organiser Rudd Hughes. He said Sunday s arrival of the large container vessel, Constantinos P, in Whangārei with Christmas cargo was not a factor in the settlement. North Tugz maintained that the situation involved a completely new operating model and contract, and therefore the staff were not losing conditions. But it was glad the dispute had been resolved. We re pleased to have reached a point where our customers can plan with certainty over the busy Christmas and New Year period, North Tugz chief executive Tom Greig said.