The Fair Work Commission yesterday banned the Maritime Union of Australia from carrying out any unprotected industrial action in Sydney for one month.

The MUA was unhappy with the NSW Government’s recently announced Sydney Ferry Future Plans, released last Wednesday. It pledged to add more ferries, upgrade wharves and introduce a new timetable.

Yesterday morning, ferry services in Sydney were cancelled from 10am to 2pm.

The MUA’s Sydney branch secretary Paul McAleer said the commission did not seem to understand that requests for meetings with HCF representatives to discuss planned changes were refused.

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