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  1. Maritime union wins groundbreaking agreement with Hutchison Ports

    situation on the waterfront 鈥渂eing extremely difficult鈥 HPA workers 鈥渟tuck together, fought hard and made ... male-dominated industry, like the waterfront, Hutchison workers have now achieved the highest ratio of women to ...

  2. Issy Wyner: Labour movement fighter and pioneer of local government democracy

    waterfront suburbs and societies were alive with leftists organising with the powerful and dynamic waterfront ... industry brought Issy into major conflict with Labor. The waterfront in the Inner West, which had been home ... to hundreds of waterfront manufacturing operations, large and small, were being sold off to local ...

  3. This week in history

    April 6 1998: Patrick Stevedores launches its "war on the waterfront" by sacking its ...

  4. The best and worst of the union movement

    The best and worst of the union movement Waterfront 鈥 the battle that changed Australia By Helen ... And they've done it again with this one. In Waterfront 鈥 the battle that changed Australia, ... But they chose the relatively conservative path, and have written a book which treats the waterfront ...

  5. Women fight back against sexual assault: Be part of #March4Justice on March 15

    Waterfront, 12 noon Facebook page Hobart Paliament Lawn, 12 noon Facebook page 聽 Katherine Courthouse Lawns, ...

  6. Hutchison workers win strong COVID-19 protection measures

    called on all waterfront companies to fully cooperate and include the union and workers in COVID-19 ...

  7. Local anti-Howard group formed

    industrially. He cited the mass pickets during the waterfront dispute in 1998 as an example. National Tertiary ... role of mass pickets in the 1998 waterfront dispute. To contact the committee phone Tony on 0402 368 ...

  8. Meeting opposes 'Ocean wart'

    the waterfront. Speakers at the 300-strong meeting included the Greens, Salamanca market traders, the ... waterfront and it's historic buildings, and that Oceanport would deter rather than attract cruise ships. ...

  9. Union activist speaks on campus

    forums were organised by Resistance. Corrigan explained that the waterfront dispute is not about ... waterfront; education minister David Kemp has voluntary student unionism legislation prepared. If passed, it ...

  10. The long fight to Save Callan Park continues

    and renovate the building overlooking the Waterfront Oval into a facility for sporting clubs and ...

  11. Artists who walked the Hungry Mile

    produced by Sydney wharfies in a fascinating exhibition, "On the Waterfront: wharfies, artists and ... had experienced severe hardship and unemployment. "On the Waterfront" is imbued with the ... Waterfront" who was a member of the "Brains Trust". Sawyer, who left school at 14, described the ...

  12. The struggle against uranium enters the labour movement

    access to their markets", Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said on July 3, 1977. Waterfront battle ...

  13. MUA fights for conditions as Patrick uses pandemic to slash them

    Work Commission (FWC) failed to resolve a waterfront dispute between Patrick stevedores and the ...

  14. Minister gets facts wrong on Fremantle Port strike

    Bray said lives have been lost on the waterfront in recent times, including a tragic fatality only days ... investigate the concerns of workers to avoid further fatalities on the Australian waterfront,鈥 Bray said. ... "The MUA makes no apologies for working to deliver safety for workers on the waterfront. 鈥淢inister ...

  15. Ten years on: MUA still fighting for justice

    Fremantle, "community assemblies" stopped the passage of trucks to the waterfront. Containers ... campaign to exclude the union from the waterfront. In order to provide evidence that the government of ... reported. It is also seeking access to two government-commissioned reports on waterfront reform prepared by ...

  16. Socialist unionists discuss struggles

    a description of the anger felt by waterfront workers at refusal of the union's incumbent leadership to ... despite having been on the waterfront for only four years, showed the growing mood for a democratic and ... militant alternative, especially among the increasing numbers of casuals on the waterfront. Casuals make up ...

  17. How you can support the wharfies

    4226 2010. Women of Waterfront Wives and women supporters of the wharfies have launched Women of ... Waterfront Australia (WOW) to work on raising the profile of women and families affected by the dispute. For ... workplace over issues related to the waterfront dispute contact the communications unit at the ACTU on (03) ...

  18. Maritime restructuring 'prepares new disasters'

    Weekly that the federal government's restructuring of the waterfront will increase the chances of ... want the Australian waterfront opened up to all sorts of foreign competition", he said, "but ... government's plans to deregulate the waterfront will affect the MUA and its members, Pritchard said, "This ...

  19. Life after Patrick: back to the 'hungry mile'?

    We've heard about P&O Ports' moves to take a leaf out of Patrick's book of waterfront ... being fostered on the waterfront? It's a competitive culture; we're competing for jobs. We ... years? When the waterfront reforms took place in 1992, there was disillusionment and disappointment that ...

  20. MUA struggle continues

    MUA struggle continues By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥 Tensions on and off the waterfront continue to ...

  21. Attacks on MUA escalate

    By James Vassilopoulos Waterfront bosses and the Coalition government are investigating the ... long entrenched situation whereby the Maritime Union of Australia allocates waterfront labour". In ... waterfront. Privatisation of port authorities was how the British dockers' union was smashed, their ...

  22. LabourStart TV launched

    1998 waterfront dispute in Australia. Check out the site at <http://www.labourstart.tv>. From ...

  23. Wharfies sign Accord package

    By Steve Painter Waterfront unions became the first to settle an Accord Mark VI deal outside the ... rejected by the ACTU. The deal will clear the way for continuing negotiations on waterfront productivity. ... In these negotiations waterfront employers, led by Conaust (P&O), are using calls for reform to ...

  24. News briefs

    Waterfront Authority passed through Tasmania's upper house on November 24 in a win for corporate ... planning decisions relating to the prime waterfront land around Sullivans Cove 鈥 Hobart's docks area ...

  25. Vale John Rainford 鈥 communist, unionist, writer and filmmaker

    improve flood mitigation for the area. In the late 1990s, as the Patrick鈥檚 waterfront dispute was ...

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