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Journal - December 2004
In Viet Nam the process of renovation has been long and will continue to be difficult, and there are real challenges ahead for the country. The decision at the 7th Congress was correct. The economy is vital, its development and the political position are inseparable. Viet Nam is on the cusp of realising its true potential economically, it would be tragic to see any other outcome given what the people of Viet Nam have endured throughout history. [ Full Story ]
Missing the boatNational Secretary Paddy Crumlin addressed the Seacare Conference in Darling Harbour Sydney on November 16. [ Full Story ]
Asbestos
A CSR Shipping executive told delegates to the annual Seacare conference held in Darling Harbour in November that he believed managers responsible for unsafe work environments that lead to deaths or serious injury should be gaoled. [ Full Story ]
VALE Stewart HarrityAdelaide wharfie Stewart Harrity unloaded sacks of raw asbestos off ships consigned for the James Hardie fibro plants up the road in Larges Bay and Elizabeth West until the mid seventies. Last July aged 58 and still working on the wharves, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma. He died in December. [ Full Story ]
Hardie KilledA CSR Shipping executive told delegates to the annual Seacare conference held in Darling Harbour in November that he believed managers responsible for unsafe work environments that lead to deaths or serious injury should be gaoled. [ Full Story ]
Killed by AsbestosAfter a concerted media and industrial campaign encompassing the labour movement, community groups, councils, governments, shareholder meetings, media and regulatory groups here and abroad, the ACTU reached an agreement in principle with James Hardie that will ensure all its current and future asbestos victims are fully compensated. Parties were aiming to lock in the agreement before Christmas. [ Full Story ]
Competition
Do you work in the maritime industry and also work in television, theatre or film? Have you done so in the past? Do you dream of doing so in the future? [ Full Story ]
Events
In Sydney it was the platform for the Labor Party to launch its maritime policy on the eve of the national election while in Melbourne it was the International Transport Workers’ theme of shore leave for seafarers with a delegation of unionists, seafarers and clergy meeting with the US Consul General. [ Full Story ]
Rekindling the Eureka SpiritThe Spirit of Eureka was alive and burning bright at the MUA Melbourne Branch rooms in Ireland Street, West Melbourne on December 1, as the branch hosted a public meeting chaired by National Secretary Paddy Crumlin. [ Full Story ]
Australian Shipping: Environmental ChampionDavid J Sterrett, Chairman - Australian Shipowners’ Association address on Maritime Day, September 30 (abridged) [ Full Story ]
EurekaIn Australia today, there is no more fitting emblem of the spirit of a Fair Go than the Eureka flag. It stands as the powerful symbol of resistance to injustice. [ Full Story ]
Industrial RoundsInternational Issues
Government, employer and worker delegates attended an international conference in Geneva in September to draft a Bill of Rights for the 1.2 million seafarers who handle nearly 90 per cent of the world’s trade. Hosted by the International Labour Office (ILO) the bill will replace a host of existing labour standards to protect exploited seafarers for adoption to the Maritime Session of the International Labour Conference scheduled to take place in 2005. It will set global labour standards that can be enforced in practice — minimum standards for employment; working conditions; repatriation, entitlements and leave; standards for onboard working and living accommodation; social protection and seafarers’ welfare. “The international community has sought to establish a safety culture on board ships, for many years” said Jon Whitlow, Secretary Seafarers’ Section, International Transport Workers’ Federation. “The aim is to bring together key principles and rights and standards developed during the last 80 years.” National Secretary Paddy Crumlin is playing a key role in developing the Bill. This is his address to the ILO Maritime Conference: [ Full Story ]
Long MarchAfter three years of industry lobbying and intensive work to have the Labor Party adopt a maritime policy which would have created level seas for Australian ships and crew, we are now back to square one. [ Full Story ]
Mailbag
[ Full Story ]
Maritime diary
A very Happy New Year to you. Let international and community and peace drive prosperity and success, not war, arrogance and further division. And, Mr Howard, leave us to get on with our job of protecting workers, free of political interference and manipulation or you'll get a bit of Eureka whether you like it or not. [ Full Story ]
New media
The MUA has helped fund the production of a film documenting
the brutal battle that led to the fall of the Canadian Seamen’s Union
in 1949. The International Lonshore and Warehouse Union is screening Betrayed
in the US and touring it around the country. The MUA plans to do likewise here
in 2005.
[ Full Story ]
Shipmate Vale
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Unanimous
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Union Duesstevedoring
Scott Hooper 29, (Full time permanent after more than four years as a suppo and PGE.) “It was a big point this EBA that the PGEs wanted to put across. We wanted permanency. We got 55 jobs put up at East Swanson Dock. I think the PGEs here are all very happy. I’m ecstatic. [ Full Story ]
Persuading PatrickThe suppo is now a thing of the past. At least at Patrick terminals. After a decade of casual workers flooding the waterfront until they made up more than half of the workforce, the tide is turning. [ Full Story ]
Corrigan Joins the ClubPatrick chair Chris Corrigan and BGC head Len Buckeridge are among a group of 20 current and former business leaders who have written to the PM urging a new round of IR changes now that the Howard Government will control the Senate. [ Full Story ]
We're in the unionMelbourne wharfies Jason Gretch, 30 and Scott Hooper, 29 are two of 182 Patrick workers made permanent nationwide as a result of the new enterprise agreement ratified by the commission in November. [ Full Story ]
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