Chinese seafarers aboard the Stolt Kikyo tanker — which berthed in Devonport early this morning — are owed wages for two months and have not received coastal trading payments required under Austral
Employment Minister Eric Abetz should remove his ideological blinkers and stand up for the Australian shipping sector rather than meekly accepting a decision by Caltex to sack 36 Australian workers
Meet former Tasmanian maritime worker Karl Williams who – similar to the workers in the Alexander Spirit – also lost his job to foreign workers and is now allegedly the subject of legal action by t
An appeal lodged by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) against a Fair Work Commission decision involving an oil tanker in Tasmania will be heard on Friday.
With Caltex cutting adrift its workers in Devonport, the Greens condemn the Abbott government’s plans for further deregulation of the local shipping industry.