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  1. Vale 'Chicka' Dixon: wharfie and Aboriginal activist

    Waterside Workers Federation. "I got on the waterfront and become a wharfie and that's where ... Aborigines came to the waterfront and became members of the waterfront. "Chicka was dedicated to the ...

  2. Bastards then, bastards now

    on the waterfront. The scenes of April 1998 at Patrick's stevedoring terminals around the ... union officials and many on the waterfront trained and skilled in traditional "old school" ... waterfront. Casualisation is now the prevalent form of employment, and productivity has increased at the ...

  3. UNITED STATES: Bosses increase pressure on dockworkers

    unions on the waterfront", Heyman said. "The way to counter that is not to stick your head in ... executive director of the West Coast Waterfront Coalition 鈥 which includes corporations like Wal-Mart, ... any work interruption on the waterfront", said Joseph Miniace, president and chief executive ...

  4. MUA stop-work meetings express determination to win

    accused Adelaide's waterfront operator, SeaLand, of making the city inefficient, unproductive and ... on issues such as productivity levels. Efficiency on the waterfront was not the real issue behind ... that the NFF does not represent the majority of farmers in its waterfront reform policy, or in general. ...

  5. A commitment to peace

    O'Brien's account of his experiences as a unionist on the waterfront from 1948 until his retirement in 1976 ... with life on the waterfront. They are fiercely pro-worker, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic ... peace committees. O'Brien became secretary of the Waterfront Peace Committee, was active in the ...

  6. Howard's real agenda and how to fight it

    waterfront to spearhead his assault on workers' rights. Under Labor, waterfront unions traded off ... Coalition to paint a picture of waterfront workers as privileged and overpaid. The union movement has been ...

  7. Lebanon 2019: Impressions of a culture of revolution

    favourable terms, Solidere makes excellent profits by running waterfront hotels and leasing the port鈥檚 ocean ...

  8. Sydney, Canberra mark Venezuelan Independence day

    supporting progressive international struggles and invited solidarity activists to visit the waterfront to ...

  9. Forum discusses (re)winning the right to strike

    Patrick waterfront dispute. "As part of the ACTU's Change the Rules campaign, we need to focus ...

  10. Rebellion in the maritime union

    the percentage of casual employees on the waterfront has dramatically increased in the four years ... a "shake-up in the leadership of the waterfront union has raised fears that increased militancy may jeopardise ... crucial reforms of the waterfront". The "reforms" referred to are massive increases in the ...

  11. MUA-Patrick deal: a great struggle faces betrayal

    the deal blocks the Howard government on a crucial point of its agenda for the waterfront (breaking ... after the Waterfront Industry Reform Authority (WIRA) 聯reforms聰 of 1989-1992. And what happens if 628 ... aggravation. The corporations look set to get cuts in waterfront staffing levels and speed-ups as great as ...

  12. Qube accused of abusing loopholes to cut wages, conditions

    on Melbourne鈥檚 waterfront after Qube Ports applied to terminate an enterprise agreement covering its ...

  13. Poor safety taking its Toll

    Workers & unions Marcus Harrington A recent death on the Melbourne waterfront on May 20 was ... campaigned for better safety and now demands that this crisis in waterfront safety be addressed by ... on the waterfront. Occupying the head office, the members sent a clear message to the executives; ...

  14. UNITED STATES: Bush threatens dockers' right to strike

    look with trepidation at the beginning of another era. Decades from now, the waterfront will be largely ... adviser Carlos Bonilla, to meet with them. Meanwhile, a steady media drumbeat announced that a waterfront ... a waterfront strike impossible. But their long-term effect would extend far beyond the docks. The use of ...

  15. NFF moves on to shearers

    By Jorge Jorquera On the waterfront, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) spearheaded the new ...

  16. Matters survives dismissal calls

    over his public allegations of wrongdoing on the Port Kembla waterfront. Many unionists were angered ...

  17. Hutchison dispute edges toward settlement

    97 waterfront workers at Port Botany and Port of Brisbane were suddenly sacked via text and email. We ...

  18. Hutchison workers to vote on new agreement

    Agreement (EB, EBA) reinstatement of sacked workers Gadigal Country/Sydney Waterfront workers at Hutchison ...

  19. Hutchison agreement nears resolution

    6 with the sudden sacking by text and email of 97 waterfront workers at Hutchison's two facilities ...

  20. MUA rallies outside Turnbull's office

    that the MUA would continue to campaign against attacks on seafarers' and waterfront workers' ...

  21. MUA, residents oppose Millers Point public housing sell-off

    secretary of the MUA, who stressed the strong historic links of the waterfront unions with the area, and ...

  22. Deakin student association censors Resistance members for 'Up Yours Abbott' T-shirts

    event at Deakin's Waterfront campus in Geelong only to be informed by DUSA officials that if their ...

  23. Unions picket Barangaroo construction site over new agreement

    a picket line outside the Barangaroo development on Sydney鈥檚 waterfront on July 27, CFMEU NSW state ...

  24. Strike action heralds 鈥榊ear of the Wharfie鈥

    WA MUA branch secretary Chris Cain has vowed that this year his members on the waterfront will make ...

  25. A playground for the rich

    of money.鈥 It certainly felt that way as I walked through Darling Harbour last Friday. The waterfront ...

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