Rail & Maritime Transport Union

RMTU
Full name	Rail & Maritime Transport Union Inc.
Affiliation	NZCTU, ITF, Labour Party
Key people	Wayne Butson, general secretary ; Aubrey Wilkinson, national president
Office location	Wellington, New Zealand
Country	New Zealand
Website	www.rmtunion.org.nz

Last updated May 04, 2019

The Rail & Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) is a trade union in New Zealand. It represents transport workers in all aspects of the transport industry; rail, road and ports.

A trade union, also called a labour union or labor union (US), is an association of workers forming a legal unit or legal personhood, usually called a "bargaining unit," which acts as bargaining agent and legal representative for a unit of employees in all matters of law or right arising from or in the administration of a collective agreement. Labour unions typically fund the formal organisation, head office, and legal team functions of the labour union through regular fees or union dues. The delegate staff of the labour union representation in the workforce are made up of workplace volunteers who are appointed by members in democratic elections.

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The RMTU is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, the International Transport Workers' Federation, the International Centre of Labour Solidarity (ICLS) and the New Zealand Labour Party.

The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) is a national trade union centre in New Zealand. The NZCTU represents 360,000 workers, and is the largest democratic organisation in New Zealand.

International Transport Workers Federation global union federation of transport workers trade unions

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership of 19.7 million transport workers in all industrial transport sectors: civil aviation, dockers, inland navigation, seafarers, road transport, railways, fisheries, urban transport and tourism. The ITF represents the interests of transport workers' unions in bodies that take decisions affecting jobs, employment conditions or safety in the transport industry.

The New Zealand Labour Party, or simply Labour, is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers describe Labour as social-democratic and pragmatic in practice. It is a participant of the international Progressive Alliance.

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