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We need distance from the car virus, too
of crowds. It never crosses anyone’s mind to demolish waterfront homes to widen these congested ...
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Desal spy scandal — Jail the real industrial crooks, not Ark Tribe!
Workers & unions Democracy Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) Ark Tribe Wonthaggi desalination plant Thiess Degremont Australian Security Intelligence (ASI) Margarita Windisch Workers downed tools at the Wonthaggi desalination plan ...
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Protestors demand water for the rivers
Chris Corrigan who was instrumental in attacking the MUA in 1998 in the famous waterfront battle. ...
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DP World escalates attacks on workers
important questions for workers’ rights beyond the waterfront. First, it demonstrates just how much ...
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When police shot Anzacs
November 2, 1928, Victorian police shot and wounded four waterfront unionists on Princes Pier. One of these ... shipowners and conservative politicians to smash Melbourne’s waterfront union. Similar to the attempt in ... the mythical riot. The media also never queried this. Waterfront scabs were praised in the press, ...
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ACCC signals a new assault on wharfies
by the stevedore bosses as a result of the 1998 waterfront dispute are being eroded by a lack of new ... waterfront dispute labour costs totalled $88.71 per container lifted and they steadily declined to $66.34 in ... pressure on waterfront companies to drive down workers' wages and speed-up operations in order to main ...
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'Fight back and never surrender'
Never a White Flag: The Memoirs of Jock Barnes, Waterfront Leader Edited by Tom Bramble Victoria ... a political account of the 1951 waterfront lockout and the struggles in the '30s and '40s that led ... the postwar years, militant organised labour was under attack throughout the west — on the waterfront ...
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Out of the kitchens and onto the picket lines
Liverpool Dockers' Women of the Waterfront in a letter to the Maritime Union of Australia. This ... solidarity from the Liverpool women gave impetus for the formation of Women of the Waterfront (WOW) ... than that." Women of the Waterfront is urging women to staff the picket lines and to get involved ...
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MUA’s battle for jobs intensifies at Hutchison Ports
the workers and for the defence of jobs on the waterfront refuses to die. The sudden sackings of the ... received from waterfront unionists internationally. These include workers at Hutchison's home port of ... "The Hutchison dispute is a test case for the future of the waterfront in this country. "Unless we ...
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Defend the maritime union
century's fight to establish the rights of workers. Waterfront employers at the time preferred convict slave ... fairly among unionised workers. Waterfront workers' history of militant and united action won them ... collective bargaining, union representation and equal pay. Maritime workers, both waterfront and seagoing, ...
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Time for unions to take the offensive
administrators any of the $250 million earmarked by the government for "waterfront reform". The trade ... unions' ability to fight. What tactics? Throughout the waterfront struggle, there have been inevitable ... of developing a viable alternative policy for the waterfront. The immediate alternative — the Labor ...
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Fremantle's women take centre stage
Fremantle's women take centre stage Waterfront Women Deckchair Theatre Company Directed by ... Deckchair Theatre's Angela Chaplin, it time the stories of the women of the port were heard. Waterfront ...
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DEFEND PATRICK'S DOCKERS & THE MUA- COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY
attack on the MUA and the hard-won conditions on the waterfront. Rally to show that there is a strong ...
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Hutchison assemblies hold the line
On November 6, the dispute over the controversial sacking of 97 Hutchison waterfront workers by text ... 1076 On November 6, the dispute over the controversial sacking of 97 Hutchison waterfront workers by ...
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MUA rank and file group grows
the Melbourne waterfront and a supporter of the group, was well received as guest speaker. Hillier ... closed doors. Rank-and-file committees will be brought back to the waterfront, and job delegate ...
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Rural workers: why unions should be concerned
during the 1998 waterfront dispute. Hanan said that in the meat processing industry, "farmers have ... agenda". After the 1998 waterfront dispute, NFF executive director Wendy Craik threatened that the ... NFF-established scab company, P&C Stevedores, "remains as another entity in the waterfront landscape, ...
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Newcastle: MUA morale high despite threats
government is offering is available only for "genuine" waterfront change and that the Newcastle ... Women of the Waterfront organised a 300-strong march from Carrington to the picket line. The march was ...
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Change the rules for Esso workers
to defend our rights. “On the waterfront, our safety and conditions are constantly under threat. The ...
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Picnic for peace
peace" on the Geelong waterfront, initiated by the Geelong Greens. Federal ALP member for Geelong, Gavin ...
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AQIS workers face sack
the waterfront here held a stop work meeting on September 6 over concerns about workplace safety and ...
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Court tries to sue union
By Arun Pradhan PERTH — The national waterfront strike in support of the ACTU's industrial ...
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Industrial action debated on South Coast
on April 21 and 22 met to consider the waterfront dispute. The meetings voted almost unanimously to ...
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Life on the wharves
waterfront a few months ago. "Wharfies earn $100,000 a year for 12 hours work, don't they? They ... more. On the waterfront, suppo's are at the bottom of the food chain. There are no guarantees of ... times) to undertake data entry work in the administration building. Despite the waterfront being one of ...
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United States: July 4 speech signals new stage in Trump’s race war
of police violence line the waterfront in Seattle. Photo: Lisa Ahlberg/lisaahlberg.com Coronavirus ...
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The drug wars: World War II and Vietnam
River. Spies and sabotage were suspected and tighter security on the New York waterfront was called for. ... solution. New York’s waterfront workers should leave the corrupt, Mafia-controlled International ... A cleaned-up waterfront could be relied on to support the war against fascism through democratic politics in ...