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Jets and Tigers battle for MUA solidarity cup
12 Mar 2010 The Jets and the Tigers man the barricades this Saturday ... and the coveted trophy is the appropriately named Solidarity Shield, recognising the industrial working-class and trade union heritage of both of these NSW Rugby League 1908 foundation clubs.
Wharfies fighting cancer
11 Mar 2010 Laingy's Lion Hearts (Patricks) take out the shield at Souths Sydney Junior Leagues Club boxing tournament fund raiser for kids with cancer
International News
- Bangladesh 21 Workers Die in a Fire at H&M Factory
- Global UK union announces strike dates at British airline
- India Maersk urged to intervene to settle Indian port drivers’ agreement
- Canada Vale Rejects Clear Path to Settlement
- Global Global e-petition on financial transactions tax
- Australia ACTU Laws should protect building workers, not persecute them, says major new report
7 Mar 2010 MUA member and seafarer David Butler, Sydney films a rig in tow
5 Mar 2010 Hundreds send e-mails backing Aussie oil-rig workers wanting iconic Danish multinational to recognise union
4 Mar 2010 Vale American socialist, labour activist, award winning writer, professor, historian and "courageous militant"
4 Mar 2010 On February 19th 2006 a methane gas explosion occurred in number 8 shaft of the Pasta de Conchos mine owned by Grupo Mexico in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila.
3 Mar 2010 Minister again commits to revitalisation of Australian shipping
3 Mar 2010 The International Transport Workers' Federation's Offshore Task Force met in Mumbai on February 22nd to 24th. Among them was MUA Deputy National Secretary Mick Doleman and the group pledged its solidarity with workers suffering violence from contractors.
2 Mar 2010 ACT NOW: Email Danish oil rig firm discriminating against Aussie union members
1 Mar 2010 ITF taskforce and Indian dock workers hold a minutes silence for Australian waterside worker killed on the Brisbane wharves
27 Feb 2010 At a conference in Sydney yesterday the MUA said that establishing innovation councils for the offshore oil and gas sectors and the transport and logistics sector may be the smart way forward in planning the workforce for major future transport ...
Workmates honour waterside worker killed in job accident with one minutes silence26 Feb 2010 Workers on wharves across Australia will observe a minutes silence at 12 noon today (Friday February 26) in a mark of respect for Brad Gray who died in a workplace accident in Brisbane.