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First the NSW Premier and MPs boycotted its official opening, now Robert Coombs, MP has condemned the BHP non union coal terminal NCIG in the NSW State Parliament.

The Maritime Union has made a strong case to the NSW Minister for Ports about the breakdown in communications with ship crews and port management after a Filipino seafarer was recently hospitalised

The Maritime Union of Australia today backed Budget measures to lift spending on resource and freight infrastructure but said Australia would not be prepared for the substantial freight task ahead

Paddy Crumlin, MUA national secretary and chair ITF dockers section calls for govt regulation and safety standards nationally and internationally to stem the deaths of workers on the docks

The Australian Shipowners Association has joined the Maritime Union in the push to have Rudd Government to launch ship reform

Condemnation of police attacks on Costa Rica dockworkers

Maritime Union joins key unions in calling on PM to uphold Australia's international obligations to protect the rights of refugees

Ethyl mercaptan fumes alarm at Port Botany as contaminated ship heads for Brisbane

Unions gather to protest NCIG non union agreement

ICEM (International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions) reports the encouraging news that Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, general secretary of the National Miners' and Metalwo