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War on the wharves - maritime workers fighting for a great cause in this week's boxing stoush - $35,000 for the Children's hospital

MUA member and seafarer David Butler, Sydney films a rig in tow

As a federal election moves closer it is no surprise to see the usual suspects line up, over the past few weeks, to criticise the Maritime Union of Australia's latest enterprise bargaining agreemen

Hundreds send e-mails backing Aussie oil-rig workers wanting iconic Danish multinational to recognise union

Vale American socialist, labour activist, award winning writer, professor, historian and "courageous militant"

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.

Minister again commits to revitalisation of Australian shipping

The International Transport Workers' Federation's Offshore Task Force met in Mumbai on February 22nd to 24th.

ITF taskforce and Indian dock workers hold a minutes silence for Australian waterside worker killed on the Brisbane wharves

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 pl