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Journal - January 2004General
Around 300 MUA rank and file delegates, councillors, guests and international delegations from the Pacific, America and Asia will converge on Sydney for the week long MUA National Conference on March 15. [ Full Story ]
Industrial issues
In the ocean depths men like Rob Harding work amongst sharks every day. But for many it’s not the finned variety that they need to look out for in this dark & dangerous world where some of the worst employers lurk & unions are yet to fully fathom [ Full Story ]
Maritime diary
2004 presents a number of challenges for us to ensure our position in the industry continues to be protected under difficult industrial conditions. The conference of members is essential in developing a clear direction for strong and militant activity. It is the cornerstone of how we determine our policies. Membership involvement makes this mechanism of union government effective and focused, and ensures our ability to properly identify the needs of maritime workers and the tools to meet those needs. [ Full Story ]
Occupational health & safety
The MUA is campaigning to eliminate manual twistlock work in Australian terminals. A Sydney Branch initiative, the aim is to outlaw the old technology which once required waterside workers to perilously clamber around on top of stacks 6 high to secure boxes. Safety regulations now require this work to be done from a cage. Members on OH&S committees however have raised the alarm that some workers ignore safety and leave work cages without securing themselves whilechasing the bonus. A meeting of representatives from all committees have initiated a joint Union/Company Campaign to ensure safety on the job until ships using manual twistlocks are denied access to Australian ports [ Full Story ]
Insure your lifeA young man working on the Brisbane waterfront as a casual worker died in a car accident recently. When his father was looking through his belongings he found a form from his super fund offering him life insurance. It had been ignored. His wife and two children only got $2,000 in superannuation. It was not a work death. There was no compensation. But if he had filled in that form and sent it off he would have left his family $200,000. [ Full Story ]
In briefJoel campaign, 25 years behind bars for industrial manslaughter, Asbestos carnage, robot fever, crane rate soars, Howard's way [ Full Story ]
Near death experiencesWaterside workers on both sides of the Tasman lucky to be alive after a spate of accidents on the wharves again highlights job safety [ Full Story ]
Shipping news
Australian seafarers back up the gangway as hostilities between Australian seafarers CSL & ISM go on standby [ Full Story ]
ShipShape[ Full Story ]
Off the Radar“Shipping – unless it involves sheep, refugees or pollution – has long been well off the radar of newsroom chiefs of staff” — Sandy Galbraith, Lloyds List DCN, October 9. [ Full Story ]
stevedoringunion culture
The Honourable Wally Norman: Every underdog has his day- a new Australian film [ Full Story ]
Mailbag[ Full Story ]
The way we wereA new ABC series The Way We Were will features footage from the WWF film unit this year. The series which will go to air on Saturday evenings in July looks at a collection of pivotal moments in history while exploring Australian attitudes. But not in the usual ho hum way. [ Full Story ]
Women who wear blue collars35 women working in jobs traditionally the domain of blokes get together in Adelaide - including MUA maritime workers Sue Virago reports [ Full Story ]
Wharfies' GallipoliPort Adelaide remembers our fallen comrades [ Full Story ]
Fighting films stars Jack ThompsonAustralian actor Jack Thompson joined a gathering of mining and maritime workers, film makers, actors, artists and academics at the Australian Maritime Museum on November 19 for the launch of Fighting Films: A History of the WWF Film Unit. [ Full Story ]
Vintage Red[ Full Story ]
Fighting FilmsNothing less than a revolution in Australian cinematic history – this is how National Secretary Paddy Crumlin describes the WWF film unit in his forward to Fighting Films by Lisa Milner. [ Full Story ]
Port of CallReports from Fremantle, Townsville & Melbourne [ Full Story ]
Feed a VillageGive a woman a fish and she will eat for a day; teach a woman how to farm fish and she will feed a whole district! [ Full Story ]
HarbourOn the Wednesday before Easter, 1998, a few hundred metres away from the site of the new Sydney Theatre, one of the most dramatic events in recent Australian history took place. It was the culmination of a tightly planned scheme between the Federal Government and a stevedoring company. An attempt to smash the Maritime Union of Australia — the wharfies. [ Full Story ]
I'm in the unionPICKET VET: Josh Teale, 32, Port Botany auto electrician, job delegate and branch committee member lost his job in November for the third time in his 13 years on the waterfront. And for the third time the union got him his job back. Now the dispute with Skilled Engineering is to be settled from inside the gates and in the Commission. [ Full Story ]
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