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Talking union
"in principle" agreement on waterfront reform by laying off workers during the current downturn. ...
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Newcastle rallies for health care
and the waterfront unions stopped work to attend the rally. Chanting "Health for the ...
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Music, drama, space and politics
The set transforms the whole theatre into a waterfront complete with ships, cargo and workers, and the ...
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Nationalise the wharves!
Reith's dreams about waterfront 聯reform聰 have come true. How much do we 聯average聰 Australians stand to ... Benchmarking of the Australian Waterfront (IBAW) and Work Arrangements in Container Stevedoring (WACS) would ... ordinary consumers if only the lurks and perks of those 聯overpaid bludgers聰 on the waterfront can be ...
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Phil Monsour releases new union songs
Brisbane waterfront, when the shipping giant Hutchison fired half its workforce by text message.聽鈥 One More ...
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Community assembly halts Patricks at Port Botany
national lockout of MUA workers from the Australian waterfront by Patrick, and a return to their anti-union ... solidarity with the Maritime Union of Australia and their fight for justice on the Sydney waterfront ...
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MUA here to stay: 20 years since Patrick鈥檚 dispute
security guards in balaclavas, dogs and scabs to force waterfront workers out and attempt to eliminate the ...
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Gosford landing... the next Barangaroo?
Barangaroo, but little has yet to be made public on a similar development for the Gosford Waterfront Landing. ... 鈥渃onfidential鈥, fuelling speculation that the waterfront site could have been sold for as little as $6 million. ...
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NEW ZEALAND: Wharfies defend their jobs
BY ROBERT DARCY New Zealand's Waterfront Workers Union (WWU) is locked in a major dispute ... a waterfront staffed almost entirely by casual workers. The argument that CHH is simply concerned about the ...
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MUA 鈥榮olidarity camps鈥 hold firm at Hutchison Ports
assemblies were established after the provocative sacking of 97 waterfront workers at the two ports at ... no longer there. "It is now a totally union waterfront again. The lesson for our workers here at ...
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MUA rejects Patrick 'final offer', lock-out threat
agreement (EA) for its waterfront workforce. Patrick set a 36-hour deadline on April 14 for the MUA to ... 1998 Patrick waterfront dispute, when the company locked out workers across all Australian terminals, ...
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Vale Wally Stubbings
transfer in 1940 to work on the Hobart waterfront. In 1943 Wally came to Brisbane to work as part of the ... the stevedoring industry, with the introduction of containerisation onto the waterfront. The WWF was ...
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MUA leader: 'We still have fight in us'
are still relevant and we鈥檝e still got power. Would you like to add anything else? The waterfront has ... changed so much since [the Patrick鈥檚 lockout in] 1998. Today, the face of the waterfront is young women ...
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Parliament protest challenges O鈥橣arrell鈥檚 public school sell off
Gosford Public School is adjacent to waterfront views and located on prime real estate. Its sale will ... facilitate a commercial waterfront development. The Gosford Public School Action Group collected a petition ...
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Bosswatch: Wharfies slam Buswell, penalty rates attacked
was about safety of workers, noting last month's workplace death of Newcastle waterfront worker ... concerns of workers to avoid further fatalities on the Australian waterfront". MUA WA branch assistant ...
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Vic Williams: a life as an activist
a founding member of the WA Greens. He worked on the Fremantle waterfront for many years and was involved in ... CPA's wharf branch and produced its regular waterfront bulletin Smoko. In 1956, Vic became the Secretary ...
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Brisbane's March 22 protests
Waterfront Place. Not content to finish the march there, the river of people bypassed Waterfront Place and ...
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12 months of Australian political cartoons
gamut. Sections carry titles such as "A taxing time", "War on the waterfront ... and Rod Clement's "Dog talk", depicting the waterfront dispute. The exhibition runs ...
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NSW unionists rally for the MUA
a standing ovation before commencing her speech. She said the present waterfront dispute is not about ... the Labor Party's record of waterfront "reform", which she admitted had resulted in ...
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Scabs out, dockers in!
Women of the Waterfront, a group organising support for the dockers. One of the by-products of the ... Waterfront grilling some of the bad guys 鈥 a Labour "double-speaking" MP and Bill ...
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Hawke government, ACTU in disarray over wages
has refused to ratify them. The first such deal, done on the waterfront, was knocked back on June 18. ... pay rise with a 2.5% increase in line with the April wage decision. In its waterfront decision, a full ...
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Liberals' attack on wharfies aimed at all workers
beachhead on the Melbourne waterfront. Part of Webb dock at Port Melbourne has been leased for the training ... can sack wharfies, cut their wages and conditions, and introduce casual labour to the waterfront. The ... on August 15 reported on a secret Coalition plan, drafted by Houlihan, to break the waterfront union. ...
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Hutchison workers 'back in the gate'
Gadigal Country/Sydney Waterfront workers at Hutchison Ports terminals in Sydney and Brisbane are ...
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Fremantle port privatisation: lessons from the Wheatbelt
government's Elizabeth Quay waterfront project. In 2010 Brookfield announced it would close 720 kilometres of ...
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Wharfies demand national safety code for maritime industry
introduction of a national code of safety on the waterfront. The national code of safety would ensure that ...