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A Proud History
The Maritime Union is a strong union, with a long history of solidarity - working for its members, the community and causes such as the ...
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Benefits of Membership
Union members earn on average 17% more than their non-union counterparts, according the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It pays to be in a union. The ...
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Bookworms
The MUA was born from the marriage of the Waterside Workers' Federation and the Seamen's Union of Australia in 1993. Books that trace their histories ...
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Tribute to an Artist
Roy Dalgarno - socialist bohemian social realist He painted seagulls circling the seafarer like flies buzzing around the face of a bushman. Thus did the ...
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MUA Films
The Maritime Union runs its own film unit - now and also back in the fifties. Check out a selection of our film clips on ...
Films
Books
- Voices from the Ships
- The Seamen's Union of Australia 1872-1972: A history by Fitzpatrick & Cahill
- Wharfies: A History of the Waterside Workers' Federation by Margo Beasley
- War on the Waterfront: Menzies, Japan and the Pig-iron Dispute
- Black Armada: Australia & the struggle for Indonesian independence 1942-49
- Ship to Shore: A history of Melbourne's waterfront and Its Union Struggles
- Life on the Waterfront: Tas Bull, an autobiography
- WHARFIES: A Celebration of 100 Years on the Fremantle Waterfront 1889-1989
- Under the Hook
- Politics in the Union: The Hursey Case by Tas Bull (1977)
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