Power to May Day Sydney took May Day back to its roots this year, with the rally timed for the State Labor Conference in Darling Harbour and the "Power to the People" campaign to stop privatisation of the states electricity on Saturday Posted: 03 May 2008 [ Full Story ]
US wharfies shut down West Coast ports in anti-war protest MUA supports the couragous and principled stand this May Day by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Workers' Union and reports that the Port Workers Union of Iraq plan to shutdown ports for one hour in solidarity with US dock workers
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It all began on April 7, 1998, when in the dead of the night
security guards and savage dogs pulled workers off forklifts,
straddles and cranes and out the gates.
Uranium exports, French nuclear testing in
the Pacific, the destruction of the world's rainforests, dumping
of toxic waste, pollution of our marine life - you name it
- the Maritime Union has taken a stand.
The Maritime Union has a long history, dating
back before the turn of the century and beyond. It is a proud
history - a history of protecting its members and supporting
just causes.
Logging On It was, and still is a set political and industrial piece unfolding like a B Grade horror show for working men and women and their communities around the world. “I was a Neo Conservative Slave” or maybe “the Monster from the Pinstriped Lagoon”.
Big companies, well not just big, companies able to dwarf the economic power of most nation states
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National Conference International labour leaders from 30 nations converged on Sydney in April to join Australian maritime workers for the 10th anniversary of the 1998 waterfront dispute and the union’s National Conference of delegates at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre in Sydney from April 7-11.
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Back in the Gate: Howard Gone- MUA Here to Stay! The Sydney Branch of the MUA invites all members and their families to celebrate the 10 year anniversay of the return to work of Patrick workers with a family carnival and picnic day. 31 May 2008
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