Maritime Union of Australia: Workers Journal: : Index

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Journal - April 2006

Industrial Rounds

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International Issues

'We don't need it, we don't want it, we will fight it'

WHEN I first heard what the European Commission was proposing - seafarers handling cargo and self-handlers hiring people who aren't registered dockers to do dockers' work - it felt like we were returning to the 19th century. Were we heading back to an age where the only thing needed to work in the docks was brute strength and the willingness to spend half of your hard earned wages in the foreman's wife's shop or pub if you wanted to work the next day?

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Victory in Europe

BATTLE FOR STRASBOURG: Australians stevedoring workers join European comrades in defence of dockworkers' rights

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Seafarers' Bill of Rights

It is no accident that the historic convention adopted at the ILO in February is known as the Seafarers' Bill of Rights. Along with the Slavery Abolition Act in the UK in 1833, the US Bill of Rights in 1789 and the ILO Forced Labour Convention in 1930, the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 will play its part in freeing 1.2 million seafarers from the shackles of Flag of Convenience shipping - the infamous Ships of Shame.

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Questions and Answers

What is the maritime labour convention?

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Bloody Monday

Oakland pays for police violence at port by Steve Stallone, The Dispatcher

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In our words

MUA delegates to Strausberg give their impressions

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International Transport Workers' Federation

Stranded

ITF wins justice & $1million payout for abandoned crew in Port Adelaide

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Mailbag

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Maritime diary

Maritime Diary

You have to worry about what's going on in our country at the moment and what has led up to it. Our national sense of ourselves has been as a fair minded, fair go people, who look after battlers in our own country while also being prepared to back the people of other countries in need in the world at large... Well we're doing a mighty job of disposing of that.

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