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  1. Life of Riley: Who's for waterfront reform?

    Who's for waterfront reform? Recently, I had an opportunity to catch up with some ... mainly because we all shared the same, or similar, outlook on the question of waterfront reform. How the ... making. We're reforming the waterfront. And the key aspect of that is — Smashing the union. ...

  2. Waterfront 'reform': in whose interests?

    Sue Boland Everybody is talking about waterfront reform — the federal government, Patrick ... Stevedores, P & O Ports, the ALP and the ACTU. "The need for waterfront reform" has been ... Herald reports that 74% of respondents support waterfront reform. However, 52% of those respondents ...

  3. Out of the kitchens and onto the picket lines

    Liverpool Dockers' Women of the Waterfront in a letter to the Maritime Union of Australia. This ... solidarity from the Liverpool women gave impetus for the formation of Women of the Waterfront (WOW) ... than that." Women of the Waterfront is urging women to staff the picket lines and to get involved ...

  4. Newcastle: MUA morale high despite threats

    government is offering is available only for "genuine" waterfront change and that the Newcastle ... Women of the Waterfront organised a 300-strong march from Carrington to the picket line. The march was ...

  5. Industrial action debated on South Coast

    on April 21 and 22 met to consider the waterfront dispute. The meetings voted almost unanimously to ...

  6. Union official fights political charges

    pledges to "reform the waterfront", the massive propaganda campaign against the Maritime Union ...

  7. Police monitor Western Sydney solidarity

    discussion about the waterfront dispute. The only things demolished were the arguments of Peter Reith, John ...

  8. Write on: letters to the editor

    to descend into Dickensian conditions on the waterfront. Stevedoring costs are minuscule when you ... and Howard, now so sanctimoniously bleating about children appearing at the waterfront disturbances, ...

  9. Who are Reith's next targets?

    way that the rest of the economy has done so. The waterfront has been unwilling to do it, and if there ...

  10. Progressive party planned in South Korea

    the waterfront. In response to the offensive against workers under the IMF-prescribed austerity ...

  11. A new direction for trade unionism

    the privatisation of British ports and the destruction of the waterfront unions, dramatises social ...