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Journal - December 2005

General

    New Union Dues
    The 2004 National Delegates’ Conference adopted the following resolution: “The rates of Union dues to be adjusted to reflect a more consistent and relevant structure than the one that currently exists. Taking into consideration the existing multitude of levels and the huge administrative workload a streamlining of the current system is necessary.”

Industrial Rounds

Industrial issues

    No Choice
    The Howard government’s WorkChoices is Orwellian in it’s double speak. Far from offering workers real choices, it is a case of ‘take or leave it’. Never forget 1998
    Academic David Chin warns that under the new laws the union could not have won High Court decision in the war on the waterfront. Comrades
    Bill Bodenham was a veteran of the Boeing dispute a regular on the Williamtown picket now in its fifth month, until the day he died. Make love not war - scientist
    The same hormone men and women release when reaching orgasm may one day debunk economic rationalism and all that the Howard Government’s industrial relations policies are built on. Boeing
    Supersize Poor
    The man who ate Big Macs for a month to prove how unhealthy they are, has done it again. Award winning US filmmaker Morgan Spurlock and his girlfriend spent 30 days working on the US minimum wage. It made them sick. $1m IR ads = 40 jobs
    Consider this, asks Shadow IR minister Stephen Smith: The Government’s four page ads in newspapers on just one day cost the Australian taxpayer more than $1 million. Transportworkers of the world unite
    ITF affiliates protested internationally against the Howard Government IR bill at to Australian diplomatic missions on November 15 Dictating the Job
    New bill gives government & employers draconian powers over working men & women Mass Action
    It was the biggest stopwork meeting in Australian history. More than half a million working men and women, family and friends on the streets and almost that many again in pubs and clubs in regional centres around Australia — all taking part in a national wide television hook-up. And maritime workers were at the forefront. Council 05
    Industrial relations under the Howard regime, forging links internationally, maritime security, upheaval in the stevedoring industry, the LNG trade and union finances were all focal points of the November National Council

International Issues

    Global Win
    The International Transport Workers’ Federation has brokered a landmark collective agreement with shipping companies from Europe, Russia and Asia that’s a win for international seafarers and Australian maritime workers.

Mailbag

    Maritime diary
    This government has attacked the heart of our community, working men and women, by putting in place legislation designed to exploit, diminish and belittle them in the workplace so that their spirit will be insufficient to face up to the monolithic corporate power and influence that now dominate economic life and whose interests the government has so disgracefully sold out to. Mailbag

Members

Obituaries

    Farewell comrade
    Wharfies, seafarers and dockers and deckhands joined captains of industry, union officials, harbourmasters and politicians, more than 1000 in all, to mourn the loss of one of the nation’s greatest union leaders, former national president of the Seamen’s Union of Australia John Brennan in October. Veteran of Struggle
    "Comrade Brennan's history told a story of workers who found their welfare and livelihood in the sea of industrial struggle, political activism and social reform" - Paddy Crumlin, MUA Bill Bodenham: A Political Bloke
    Seafarer and active member of the Seamen’s Union of Australia, Firemen and Deckhands Union and the Maritime Union of Australia National President of the Maritime Unionists’ Socialist Activities Association (MUSAA) National Secretary MUA Veteran’s Association and community activist. Ron Thompson
    It is with much regret that I advise of the unexpected death of life member Ronald (Ron) Thompson.

Port of call

offshore industry


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