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Journal - July 2003General
Drug haul, ILO condemns Australia, Unions Calling, Rogue Diving Outlawed, Executive Pay Hike [ Full Story ]
Port of CallWharfie Legend, $155,000 grant for ITF seafarers Trust fund, Port Botany Virago, Good on you Shirley, MUA Vets branch out, May Day, Floating peace protest and MUA champ [ Full Story ]
Industrial issues
TACOMA: National Secretary Paddy Crumlin and Darwin wharfie Thomas Mayor were special guests at the second ILWU Celebration of Black History and Labour held in the US this March. [ Full Story ]
Madam LashMorris McMahon dominatrix Judith Beswick has succeeded in her three-month campaign for a Tony Award nomination. [ Full Story ]
SolidaritySYDNEY, May 22: Scuffles break out on a Sydney picket when a truck attempts to ram through a peaceful protest of around 70 Port Botany waterside workers. [ Full Story ]
Industry news
Permanency at P&O, shift upgrades, workers killed, Burnie EBA, Hand injuries, NSW battle with insurance companies over dust board and Western Stevedores. [ Full Story ]
Union AllianceThings are booming offshore & the MUA is making sure workers, incuding Timorese workers are getting a fair go. Meanwhile the union has entered an alliance with the Australian Workers' Union to recruit and organise the multi-billion dollar Australian industry. [ Full Story ]
International Issues
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ILWU Convention sets the AgendaSpurred on by the dire circumstances facing the union and the country, delegates to the ILWU’s 32nd International Convention, the highest body in the union, set its agenda for the next three years. At the gathering in San Francisco April 28-May 2 they made dumping Bush in 2004, opposing his war on and occupation of Iraq, pushing for universal healthcare and continuing the union’s organising program its priorities. [ Full Story ]
The Invasion of Iraq & Crony Capitalism[ Full Story ]
Police Fire on US WharfiesOAKLAND, April 7: Nine ILWU members were shot with concussion grenades and wooden bullets, five hospitalised and an ILWU union leader dragged from his car and imprisoned as police dispersed an anti-war protest in the port. Peace activists assembled outside the port to demonstrate against American President Lines and Stevedoring Services of America - key players in the US led invasion of Iraq. [ Full Story ]
Boycott Coke!THE ILWU has voted to boycott US multinational Coca Cola after reports that it is behind the assassination of unionists in Colombia. [ Full Story ]
MUA Stengthens Pan Pacific TiesNational Secretary Paddy Crumlin celebrated a common heritage with the powerful US dock workers union the ILWU at its national convention on April 30. [ Full Story ]
International Transport Workers' Federation
Ship detained after arriving in port without pilot or navigation equipment [ Full Story ]
Mailbag
Letters from the ports and ships [ Full Story ]
Maritime diary
The elections are over and we all need to get on with the job. Congratulations go to all the elected officers, and thanks to those officers not returned for the time, effort and commitment they have given our union. STRENGTH IN UNITY [ Full Story ]
Members
LITTLE SLUGGER: That’s how he is known to his workmates on the Port Kembla wharves. But in the boxing fraternity he is the pit bull. And on May 23 Wade Clout lived up to his name. [ Full Story ]
Notices
Fighting Films, The 1928 Strike, Seafarers' Records, Correction, Talent Search, Striking a Note, SERF Seminars [ Full Story ]
Shipmate Vale
It was Tas Bull who formalised international and national solidarity, holding executive posts simultaneously on both the ACTU and the ITF. Bull was among the first union leaders to foresee globalism and to adapt the union accordingly. [ Full Story ]
Tributes from around the world"We have lost a great trade unionist. Comrade Tas Bull leaves behind a great legacy for all of us to follow and emulate. The best tribute would be to pledge and re-dedicate ourselves to the man’s ideals and commitment to the cause of the working masses." — Umraomal Purohit, ITF President [ Full Story ]
Tribute to Labour Leader Tas BullTas Bull stopped the wharves one last time on June 3, 2003. [ Full Story ]
Vale Cobber[ Full Story ]
Vale Tas BullTas Bull, General Secretary, Waterside Workers’ Federation (1984-1992) ACTU Vice President (1987-1991)ACTU Snr Vice President (1991-1992) ITF executive board member, Asia Pacific Region (1983-1993) Chairperson, Maritime Workers’ Credit Union (1984-1992) SERF board member, Author Politics in the Union: The Hursey Case (1977) Life on the Waterfront: an autobiography (1998) Chairperson ACTU Organising Works, Chairperson Apheda, President Cuban Children’s Fund, Life Member, MUA [ Full Story ]
Shipping news
Reports on the Accolade dispute, IRAS, union research, ITF Ratings Taskforce, TransTasman federation, Northwest Shelf Shipping, TWU National Council, Patrick Shipping, Gove Deck Hands, CSL Pacific and Stadacona court action, Seafarers' ID, the New Rules for Sea Rescue post Tampa debacle, the budget and the ACTU transport policy [ Full Story ]
union elections
The tally, branch by branch [ Full Story ]
Union ballotAll national officers comfortably returned; some new faces in major ports [ Full Story ]
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