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Journal - October 2007Events
WEB DELEGATES, WEBCAM, MUA IDOL MARK II & THE UPCOMING NEW MUA WEBSITE [ Full Story ]
General
Terry O’Shane shipped out of Darwin in 1969, working on the tender vessels to the oil rigs in the Bonaparte Gulf, before returning to his home town of Cairns to work on the coastal traders to Thursday Island and Weipa. [ Full Story ]
Mailbag
In Mackay, Central Queensland, on August 25, the local Your Rights at Work team staged a Battle of the Bands competition titled “Rock Off Johnny” in an effort to gain the attention of the region’s young people. [ Full Story ]
Maritime diary
The latest crow-like squawking by Howard, Hockey and Costello is that 70 per cent of the ministry in a new Labor Government would be former union officials. Not true for starters – not surprising from this gang. And if it was, so what anyway? Trade unions have done more for social justice, social welfare, democracy and economic growth based on fairness and compassion than this lot of serial liars and manipulators of truth, morally compromised by their desperation and obsession for power that has corrupted much of what has been fine and fair about Australian life. [ Full Story ]
dive industry
Young workers are fair game on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Under the Howard Government’s IR laws there is no safety net and industry sharks are making a killing. This is one woman’s story of mass exploitation in the Australian maritime industry [ Full Story ]
politics
The Maritime Union Sydney Branch was a key player during the Asia Pacific Economic Community Forum in Sydney in September. Alongside the Chaser ABC TV comedy team, Branch Secretary Warren Smith and his team of fire fighters, maritime workers and community activists did their bit to highlight the security farce surrounding the forum. [ Full Story ]
Youth exploitationA major new report shows that the Coalition Government’s WorkChoices IR laws have left young workers and the low paid vulnerable to exploitation. [ Full Story ]
Let’s put the champagne on ice!Assistant National Secretary Mick Doleman, who has been co-ordinating the federal election campaign for the union, calls on members to get to work and get rid of John Howard and his draconian IR laws. [ Full Story ]
Vale ComradeVilma Espin Guillois – guerilla fighter, president of the Cuban Women’s Federation, Member of Parliament and Member of the Council of State – was a woman recognised internationally for her lifelong stand for women’s rights and emancipation, national liberation and revolution. [ Full Story ]
Rock Off JohnnyLara Watson rocks. And on Saturday August 25 she got 1800 young people in the northern Queensland electorate of Dawson to rock along with her. [ Full Story ]
WWIICould it happen again – a second War on the Waterfront? Greg Combet, Labor candidate for Charlton, former ACTU secretary, a key strategist during the Patrick lockout and originator of the Rights at Work campaign warns MUA members not to be complacent [ Full Story ]
Council CampaignElection eve national council focuses on how to attract swinging voters to Labor in key marginals and what’s in store under a Rudd/Gillard Government [ Full Story ]
UNIONS giving away millions in the marginalsMaritime and mining unions put $15 million into federal election campaign [ Full Story ]
Gulf WarThey were evicted at gunpoint. Men, women and children. Armed police stormed their homes in the night, herding them onto a boat where they watched the church they had built, the school and their township torched to the ground. [ Full Story ]
shipping campaign
MUA calls for Govt to give workers managing role in getting Sydney Ferries back on course [ Full Story ]
Sydney lifesaverMatt O’Grady is a life saver. On the night of Wednesday, March 29, he dived into the dark waters under the Sydney Harbour Bridge to rescue three women from the wreckage of a boat collision. [ Full Story ]
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