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Hinchinbrook blockade begins
attempting to relocate the dredge to the Townsville waterfront in preparation for its trip north to the ...
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Development threatens Darwin mangroves
looking to"defray" costs by subdividing the prime waterfront real estate it will be vacating. ...
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Dick Nichols
dispute lies the waterfront employers' "right" to hire and fire and to structure the work ...
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Greens contest Parramatta by-election
waterfront real estate has, funnily enough, been recently closed and further closures or downgrading are ...
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Cognac for some, Claytons for others
less. These calls will continue. As the battle on the waterfront shows, the more concession workers ...
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The week that was
the waterfront after our great and beloved prime minister, Nuclear Hawke himself, made a few minor ...
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MUA wins in court: 鈥楾he fight has just begun鈥
terminal, said: "I'm a single mother with 14 years on the waterfront. Solidarity is the key word ... its workers. "This was a landmark clause for the waterfront. We told the company we were willing ...
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Perth community alliance forms to take on the developers
Dalkeith, developments in Subiaco and the Perth Waterfront Development. The launch of WSA was marked by the ... petitions against the Cottesloe beachfront development and 11,000 regarding the Perth Waterfront Development ...
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Grocon dispute: Workers stand up to police aggression
waterfront dispute, the tabloids have rolled out a series of unsubstantiated allegations about criminal and ... 鈥渁verage rates鈥 of crane lifts. As happened in the lead up to the waterfront dispute, the media is trying ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
to descend into Dickensian conditions on the waterfront. Stevedoring costs are minuscule when you ... and Howard, now so sanctimoniously bleating about children appearing at the waterfront disturbances, ...
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Stakes high for all workers in wharf dispute
support "waterfront reform", but don't support the way it is being carried out. ... the waterfront dispute. This support for the MUA was also reflected in the quickly organised ...
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Patrick 'to sack all maritime workers'
claimed on ABC radio that federal cabinet on March 30 approved the funding of waterfront redundancies. The ... workplace relations, admitted on February 10 that the government had considered supporting the waterfront ...
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Webb Dock: what are we fighting for?
achieving productivity improvements on the Australian waterfront, the notes state: 1. Negotiated change and ... done best without unions; and it can. For so long as the MUA is on the waterfront defending its ...
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Maritime Union determined to turn back scabs
maritime reforms and the 60% increased productivity those reforms have brought to the waterfront. Attack on ... waterfront, as members of the union are even more determined to continue the fight to protect the rights of ...
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Project Life: Cuba prepares for climate change
Also included are: protecting urban waterfronts; relocating at-risk human settlements; and integrating ...
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Why we must resist injustice
Union of Australia enforced the oil boycott and waterfront ban against South African apartheid. In 1980, ...
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Jail the politicians, not the poor
who has attacked unionists, particularly waterfront workers for rorting the system. Of course, it is ... nowhere near the magnitude of the waterfront rorts but the principle remains the same and allows Labor to ... about waterfront "rorts". Unlike Shanahan and Reith, waterside workers have to work ...
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The hidden side of Australia's 'miracle economy'
stop Peter Reith's thuggery on the waterfronts, to blockade the World Economic Forum in Melbourne ... strongest unions using the Workplace Relations Act, the outcomes of the 1998 waterfront dispute and the ...
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Ships, ports and the war of terror
by terrorists. If applied to the US waterfront, such measures could result in thousands losing their ... Baltimore waterside worker Anthony White said: "The waterfront has saved a lot of people, man. I mean ...
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Fighting Howard: 'Greater unity and common purpose'
they'll join any industrial action that the MUA gets involved in. The waterfront employers are looking at ... and move them off the waterfront and they can do that without suffering an enormous cost, they'll ...
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MUA members speak out against the Patrick deal
this deal accepts is casualisation, something that was fought against for years by waterfront workers ... gone, because there'll be nothing behind you. Also, everyone on the waterfront I speak to really ...
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Is any job safe?
the notorious 聯bull system聰, in which the waterfront bosses would pick men for work each morning. ... The waterfront dispute has focused workers' attention on the loss of job security which has been ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
the waterfront is a crusade for social justice that merits the full support of all fair-minded people. ... play enabling roles in that process. The waterfront issue would be resolved quickly and permanently, ...
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Why we must defend the maritime workers
granted, but annual leave has not always existed. Prior to 1946 workers on the waterfront had to pay for ... Tom Hills describes the contribution of waterfront workers in his book Under the Hook: "We told ...
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Baird government prepares fire sale of harbour assets
the government to take over waterfront properties to tackle the rat epidemic and public health ...