Maritime Union of Australia: Workers Journal: : Index

Sep-Oct 2008

Journal - August 2008

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Durban dockworkers block arms to Zimbabwe

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Charleston5

�I could hear the clacking and firing of guns and helicopters � there were bright lights in my face. I�ve never been to war but I know what it�s like now.� - Ken Riley

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Mailbag

Letters commemorating Patrick 10 years on and in support of the campaign to keep our ferries

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Maritime diary

Logging On

The parliamentary inquiry into Australian coastal shipping is set to be handed down at the end of October. It will be a litmus test for the Rudd Government bona fides on delivery of their shipping policy and an important first step in repairing the vandalism of the Howard Government which used the permit system a bit like those torpedos and landmines were used against our merchant shipping and seafarers during the Second World War

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Obituaries

Vale Comrade

Max Best, Charlie Bell, Charlie Hayfield, Gordon Solomon, Tor Linquist, Les Stuart, Kurt Lux

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Occupational health & safety

New deal on job safety

Collective sick leave, retention of first aid and ship safety inspections before job start, are key outcomes of the Patrick Port Botany enterprise agreement

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Port Safety

Stevedoring workers continue to suffer injury and death around the world's ports

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Shipping news

Merchant Mariners' Day

It started as a one-man band, but Ron Wylie, son of a former merchant mariner, soon got a choir of Australians of all political persuasions singing the same tune -the Australian Government should proclaim September 3 International Merchant Navy Day - a Day of Remembrance.

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Pasha Bulker

An inquiry into the Pasha Bulker grounding has highlighted the perils of FoC shipping and the need for an expanded Australian national fleet to service coal exports.

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Sea Safety briefs

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Baltimar Fire

A damaged fuel hose, inadequate maintenance, band-aid repairs, lack of a safety management system and a substandard ship's diesel generator fuel system were key factors behind the fire on a flag of convenience ship loaded with volatile ammonia nitrate off the Newcastle coast, according to the findings of a government investigation released in June.

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Government to stop ship rorts

Move to stem tide of foreign shipping on our coastal highways

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Keep EAS up to date

The union's Employment Assistance Scheme (EAS) has been enormously successful in supplying the industry with reliable, consistent and up to date information about the availability of qualified workers to employers

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SEACHANGE

Union vision for Australia to become an Asia Pacific maritime hub

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Website will be online lifeline

The ITF has launched a new website designed especially for seafarers. It aims to be a 'one stop shop' for seafarers anywhere, irrespective of their computer literacy or quality of equipment they have access to.

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