Yesterday, Labor’s Shadow Minister for Infrastructure Anthony Albanese stood up in Parliament condemning the Government in their part on allowing the MV Portland be replaced by a Flag-of-Convenienc
The ACTU has questioned why Warren Truss’s Department would allow aluminium producer Alcoa to replace its current Australian crew with foreign workers.
In a petty and short-sighted move, BHP-Billiton has shown its contempt for Australian workers by trying to undermine a Fair Work sanctioned collective agreement.
This week, ALCOA workers at the Portland refinery were informed of yet another savage attack on Aussie seafarer jobs with the announcement from ALCOA that they plan to
On November 5, the government of Nicaragua issued an environmental permit to Chinese conglomerate HKND for the construction of its proposed trans-Nicaraguan canal.
An industrial dispute on board a Flag of Convenience ship in Newcastle now raises national security concerns, according to Dean Summers, ITF National Coordinator.
Members of a new ITF cabotage task force have agreed at their inaugural meeting steps to support national cabotage campaigns and to tackle the threat of liberalisation posed by international