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More than 1,000 people gathered in Sydney and Melbourne central business districts today to express solidarity with the US Occupy Wall Street movement and protest topics ranging from corporate gree

MUA Deputy National Secretary Mick Doleman today addressed a Melbourne conference on the topic of National Freight Infrastructure and Shipping Reform. A copy of the speech is below:

The Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) says that the responsibility for the Rena disaster lies with Government and authorities as much as with individual crew members.

The ‘Rena’ oil spill in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty has reinforced the need for more effective control of the way foreign flagged ships operate on the Australian coast.

MUA branches and members have joined with Muckaty traditional owners to campaign to stop radioactive waste being transported and dumped in Australia.

Today's momentous decision by the House of Representatives to pass the price on pollution package will provide certainty for Australian workers and business.

A ship at the centre of New Zealand's oil spill was investigated while in Australia earlier this year.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is today calling for tighter controls over the issuing of trading permits for foreign ships working on the Australian coast.

A group of Darwin stevedores are lucky to be alive after a crane unloading concrete ingredients failed.

ITF President and MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin has joined ITF General Secretary David Cockroft on a two day visit to Japan to see first-hand the areas devastated by the March earthquake and