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While the multi-billion dollar offshore industry provides professional divers union coverage, top pay and safety conditions, onshore diving and recreational diving are another story.  In the ocean depths men like Rob Harding (left) work amongst sharks every day. But for many it's not the finned variety that they need to look out for in this dark & dangerous world where some of the worst employers lurk.   The MUA covers 100 professional divers working on construction sites on the shores of our capital cities, on the Great Barrier Reef dive tours and below offshore oil and gas facilities in the Timor Sea, Northwest Shelf and Bass Strait.


Industry Press

  • eDive bulletin Size: mb Update on the 6th Edition of the International Consensus Standards for Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations
  • MUA Divers Newsletter January 2010 Size: mb Negotiations for a new Offshore Diving EBA have been ongoing since November.
  • Indian Dive Tragedy December 2009 Size: mb All efforts to save an Indian diver failed when he got his leg stuck in a pipe while attempting to locate and repair a leak in a reservoir chamber at the Purulia Pumped Storage Project.
  • H2Ops Divers' magazine available online Size: mb In line with our commitment to the MUA divers to improve communication with ADAS link here to view and subscribe to the latest UK based H2Ops Magazine E-Edition with the latest industry news.

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Industry News & Events

  • Union Dues - New Base Rates

    Union Dues - New Base Rates

    4 Jan 2012 In line with union policy, union dues base rates will increase as at January 2012. Members will be aware that this occurs each calendar year. See pdf below for a table of rates

  • Crumlin Dismisses Call for Return to AWAs

    Crumlin Dismisses Call for Return to AWAs

    5 Sep 2011 Maritime Union of Australia National Secretary Paddy Crumlin has flatly rejected the idea of changing flexibility provisions in the Fair Work Act via a return to a system similar to John Howard's Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs).

  • MUA WA official wins bargaining rights

    16 Jun 2011 MUA WA official Will Tracey has won the right to be the bargaining representative for a group of oil & gas employees (ROV Operators) whose work is outside the union's coverage, with Fair Work Australia holding there was nothing in the Fair Work Act that prevented it.

  • Message to Divers

    11 Mar 2011 An update on the process of national harmonisation of OHS laws in the diving sector.

  • Event

    MUA National Conference: Organise, Unite, Fight!

    SYDNEY, NSW, 26 Feb 2012


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Current Campaign

Keep Australia Afloat

KEEP AUSTRALIA AFLOAT

EBA's & Awards

The Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) for offshore divers operating in Australian waters sets pay conditions for MUA air and bell divers and supervisors.

Companies

  • Woodside

    Woodside is one of Australia’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas exploration and production company, employing MUA seafarers and divers off the Northwest Shelf of Western Australia and indirectly on the LNG trading vessels

  • Surface supply divers at work

    Two surface-supply divers at work inspecting/cleaning a mock-up of a subsea structure. Filmed at The Underwater Centre, Fort William, Scotland.

  • Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme

    The Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS) is a Commonwealth Government not-for-profit diver training and accreditation scheme developed under the auspices of the Petroleum Sub-Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Minerals and Energy Council (ANZMEC).

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