Maritime Union of Australia: Workers Journal: : Index

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Journal - January 2003

Enterprise agreements

Mateship

P&O workers in two enterprises forgo a wage rise to get their mates a job

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Trade unions 'face global persecution'

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Union Aid Abroad

The Maritime Union donated $45,000 to eight overseas aid projects last year through Apheda, union aid abroad.

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Delegation Diary

MUA members record a week of solidarity on the pickets with the ILWU

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International Transport Workers' Federation

Shame

Eleven dead, 19 seriously injured, all but three on foreign or flag of convenience vessels. This was the answer to a parliamentary question from Shadow Transport Minister Martin Ferguson put to the Minister for Transport in November on how many seafarers had been killed or seriously injured in Australian waters and ports in the last five years.

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Crew strike ends in voilence

Newcastle, December 10: A pay dispute on board the Cypriot flag of convenience vessel Myron N at the Newcastle coal loader ended in violence after the chief mate allegedly beat a striking crew member.

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Blitz nets crew $160,000

ITF activists from around the region gather in Sydney

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Mailbag

Maritime Mailbag

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Maritime diary

Maritime Diary

The year ahead 2003? What have they got in store for us do you reckon? George Bush and John Howard seem to think a war will fix it, whatever it is. It is unsure though, how you square up bin Laden by blasting Iraq. Wasn�t it Saddam who had the war with Iran where over a million died? Iran was and remains an Islamic nation, so that war wasn�t about jihad. Many experts say that there is no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda and the irony is that in the war against Iran, Saddam had the full support of the US. Funny how your friends disappear sometimes. So why the war? It seems it�s about turning the Middle East into a self serve petrol station for the West.

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Occupational health & safety

Voices

Former union leader Don McDonald enlists union support in the struggle to find a cure for schizophrenia

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Shipmate Vale

Vale Cobber

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Shipping news

Homecoming

Australian crew reclaim ANL Australia

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environment

Black Tide

Spain�s Chernybol: A FoC tanker�s last moments � a maritime disaster which caused $80 million worth of environmental damage, polluted 183 beaches, destroyed the livelihoods of more than 21,500 fishermen, killed & maimed around 15,000 seabirds

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Paradise Polluted

Hunt for rogue vessel polluting our Reef as Prestige political fallout reaches Australian shores

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