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Journal - September 2006Industrial issues
MUA crew on board support vessels for the Ocean Bounty held a safety stoppage in June after the marine crew rejected individual contracts from Diamond Offshore and left the rig raising safety concerns. [ Full Story ]
Resist Howard’s IR lawsThousands rally nationwide as Howard Government plots its next move to crush workers' rights [ Full Story ]
Mourning for Spirit !!!They marched, some in black, heads bowed in mourning. Family, friends and crew gathered at the funeral of their beloved Spot 3. [ Full Story ]
International Issues
The ILWU’s 33rd International Convention recessed to take action in support of a key organizing drive, marching on the Safeway store to enlist that supermarket chain’s support for the workers at the Blue Diamond almond processing plant in Sacramento. And MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin was there with them. Marcy Rein reports for The Dispatcher: [ Full Story ]
MUA condemns Israeli invasion of LebanonAt its nationwide stopwork meetings in July the union denounced Israel’s brutal attack and massacre of women and children. It said the attacks were carried out with the full backing of both the US and Australian governments, in the hope of escalating the conflict . [ Full Story ]
Mailbag
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Obituaries
Memories of Alwyn, Keith Leleu, the Lighthouse, Pommy John Ryder, Andy Finestone, Shipmate [ Full Story ]
Occupational health & safety
Seven port workers have been killed and another seven seriously injured in spate of accidents around the world’s ports this year. [ Full Story ]
Death on the WharvesJane was in bed when the police knocked on the door around three in the morning. [ Full Story ]
New Saftey Code Needed[ Full Story ]
Broken ManGary Corbett broke his back in a work accident five long years ago. He has survived since only with the help of morphine based painkillers and anti-depressants. The morphine deadens the pain from the injury, the Zoloft the anguish of the compo battle he has been fighting for the past three years. [ Full Story ]
Shipping news
Skills Shortage: The union has called on shipping companies to address a looming skills shortage in the hydrocarbon shyipping industry [ Full Story ]
shipping campaign
The last Australian flagged tanker sailed under the Derwent Bridge into Hobart at dusk on Saturday July 8. There awaiting its crew was a small group of media and union officials. That night one score and six brave seafarers would decide to take a stand. [ Full Story ]
Stolt crew proclaimThe MUA crew of the Stolt Australia issued the following statement at a meeting onboard the vessel on Saturday, July 8: [ Full Story ]
Solidarity pledgesLetters of support of the Stolt stand came in from ports and ships, as well as key international unions [ Full Story ]
Labor leaders' pledge to Stolt crewOpposition leader Kim Beazley has written to the crew of Stolt Australia promising to enforce the Navigation Act and restrict foreign vessels carrying Australian coastal cargo. The Labor leader also promised to rip up extreme laws that penalise workers with fines and prison for trying to protect their jobs. Mr Beazley wrote [ Full Story ]
Logging OnHe’s a fit old bloke our PM, and I don’t mean as in fit and proper. I mean he carefully plans his way through government, and goes the distance. And he is a builder of walls. Walls to exclude. Walls to contain. Walls to separate workers from workers. A small man with little steps building nasty little things while making out they’re much bigger and grander. At best he is a builder of prisons. In that oversized tracksuit of his, he continues to work away at his lame and lousy vision for Australia [ Full Story ]
What they sayQuotable quotes from key players in the Stolt standoff [ Full Story ]
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