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Nikolaos Fanos, 49, waterside worker, husband and father died tragically on the night shift at Patrick Port Botany on March 28, 2010. He was crushed between two containers while lashing onboard the Vega Gotland. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s (ATSB) report into the tragic Vega Gotland incident of 28 March 2010 – where a Sydney [...]  MUA state secretary Chris Cain warned the workers were fed up and the dispute would quickly reignite if their demands were not resolved in the next four weeks. ‘If we have to take protected action to make sure our workers go home nice and safe, we’re going to do that,’ he said. Picture by [...] A series of 24-hour strikes has been called by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) in protest against DP World’s refusal to grant a 5% pay increase and also improve working conditions. One union representative has accused the company of “unacceptable safety practices”. In contrast, the MUA has reached an in principle agreement with Australia’s [...] In the wake of the Qantas battle between management and unions, the country’s waterfront could stand to become the next front in the increasingly tense relationship between employers and their workers’ unions, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review. With dock worker strikes at three locations and negotiations deadlocked at two others, [...] Up to 100 wharf workers … held a 24-hour stoppage, which ended at midnight, and they [were] expected to engage in further industrial action on Friday. The wharfies are seeking improved rostering arrangements and opportunities for career progression and training as drawn-out negotiations continue nationwide with Patrick Bulk and General Stevedoring over a new enterprise [...] POAGS, a supplier of stevedoring logistics and port management services, said awarding the claim by the Maritime Union of Australia would increase its labour costs by 80 per cent over three years. Chris Corrigan, the former Patrick chief who took on the union during the historic 1998 waterfront dispute, is chairman of POAGS. The union’s [...] , MUA on strike against Patrick, April 2011. Patrick and the MUA have been at loggerheads for almost eight months over pay and conditions. Dock workers at Australia’s three major ports went on a 24-hour walkout Saturday after talks stalled over a protracted wages and conditions dispute, crippling about one-quarter of the nation’s freight. [...] A strike at ports across the nation is almost certain to go ahead after the Maritime Union of Australia last night told the stevedoring firm Patrick it would not attend a conciliation meeting this afternoon. Although the two sides met in Port Botany yesterday to discuss issues at the Sydney freight terminal, the Herald understands [...] [UPDATE: "MUA Waterfront Strike Off as Pay talks Resume"] Planned industrial action at major ports around Australia could interrupt the export of agricultural produce. The Maritime Union of Australia has won the right for its members to take “protected industrial action” following a breakdown in enterprise bargaining negotiations with major stevedoring company Patrick. The MUA [...] The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has agreed to halt a proposed waterfront strike and believes it is making progress in negotiations with stevedoring company Patrick over a new pay deal. Patrick launched legal action in Fair Work Australia on Friday in a bid to halt planned MUA strikes at ports across Australia over the [...] The MUA is planning strikes at ports in Sydney, Melbourne (pictured above), Fremantle and possibly Brisbane from Saturday unless Patrick agrees to key demands on wages and safety. From the Sydney Morning Herald: A new waterfront battle is looming with planned strikes by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) set to cripple stevedoring company [...] Lloyd’s List Daily Commercial News reported yesterday: Representatives of Patrick and the Maritime Union of Australia will meet for a second day of negotiations today, aimed at resolving a dispute over pay and conditions for bulk and general workers. A spokesperson for the MUA said talks with Patrick bulk and general resumed in Sydney [...] Reith tried — and failed — to undermine the Maritime Union of Australia when he was Australia's Workplace Relations Minister in 1998. Australian businesses will be forced to deal increasingly with militant unionists this year as the individual contracts of their employees expire and unions exploit generous right-of-entry clauses in Labor’s Fair Work Act. [...] MUA in Geelong. Photo courtesy of Lloyd's List/DCN. AUSTRALIA: Workers at Patrick stevedores in Geelong will walk off the job for two days from today. It is the third strike at Patrick ports across the country in the past two weeks, as the Maritime Union of Australia puts pressure on Patrick’s listed owner, [...] Geelong Port Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) workers at Patrick’s bulk and general cargo facilities in Geelong will take the protected action, beginning with reduced shifts at the weekend and a 24-work stoppage on Monday. The MUA says the strike comes after failed negotiations with management over a new enterprise bargaining agreement seeking better [...] |
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