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Journal - July 2005GeneralIndustry news
Near Miss on Fremantle wharves, Delegate discrimination, Patrick: Mixed Results [ Full Story ]
International Issues
US wharfies could face the death penalty for strikes [ Full Story ]
Mailbag
NOTICE: Contributions to the letters and obituaries pages for the next edition of MWJ should be sent to national office by email, fax or mail before Friday, September 29. [ Full Story ]
Maritime diary
Deception, distortion, dissembling and straight out falsification are important tools in his government workshop. Such duplicitous behaviour figured heavily in building the waterfront conspiracy against our union. It was also important in building Howard’s electoral support in the last election. We identified the ‘children overboard’ saga at the time as another crappy trick to manipulate racial fears and prejudices within our community at a particularly shaky moment in history following 9/11. [ Full Story ]
Occupational health & safety
Maritime workers join worldwide memorial day for men and women killed and maimed at work Wharfies at East Swanson Dock Melbourne stopped work for a minutes silence on April 30 in memory of their workmates Mick Carabott, Bryan (‘Punce’) Paterson, Jeffrey Gray (P&O) and the 2000 Australian men and women killed at work each year. [ Full Story ]
Coffin RigHave MUA seafarers been exposed to lethal asbestos dust in the offshore industry in recent years? [ Full Story ]
Corporate KillerUnions help expose corporate plot to rob dying workers of compensation [ Full Story ]
Death SentenceMateship counts for Adelaide waterside worker dying from asbestos exposure [ Full Story ]
Black FridayRetired cook Bill Heath was lifting some cases of soft drink into the boot of his car at the back of K-mart when a sudden pain shot through his chest. It was Friday 13, August 1999. [ Full Story ]
The Human Toll330 waterside workers have been struck down with asbestos disease and filed claims with the Stevedoring Industry Finance Commission. Of these 106 died or are dying of lung cancer, 59 from mesothelioma, 115 asbestosis and 41 asbestos related pleural disease. Worst affected areas are NSW, Victoria and WA. [ Full Story ]
Black BansCity councils are joining unions nationwide in banning James Hardie building products. Six Sydney councils, the NSW State Government have all said they will ban any use of Hardie building materials in any future building contracts. Construction unions announced in July they would refuse to handle any Hardie products. [ Full Story ]
Port of call
Peter Garrett visit to MUA rooms, surfing champs back MUA [ Full Story ]
Security
The fear that terrorists could exploit the container transport system for their ends was confirmed on 18 October 2001 when port authorities in the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro discovered a stowaway within a well-appointed shipping container complete with bed, heater, toilet facilities and water. [ Full Story ]
Union warns: No witch-huntA major stevedore bypassed its own labour to pick up 70-80 casual workers off the streets of Burnie in Tasmania on July 21. [ Full Story ]
TerrorTerrorism is not confined to land marks. It is moving offshore where ships are not just floating targets, but a threat to our harbours and ports [ Full Story ]
Strategy AlarmA joint parliamentary report into Australia’s Maritime Strategy has called on the Federal Government to urgently respond to measures proposed by the Independent Review of Australian Shipping. [ Full Story ]
Port BlastWaterside workers in the port of Ashdod, Israel, were well into the afternoon shift. It was Sunday. 5pm. Some were in the maintenance shed, others on the wharves when two explosions, only minutes apart, shook the area. [ Full Story ]
Shipmate Vale
Tony Barber, Des Cox, Ian Sinclair, John Boyle [ Full Story ]
Shipping news
LNG Shipping, Fair Practice, Seafarers' Bill of Rights, Offshore Conference, Bayu Undan, Security Dispute, Stolt Super, CSR Eba [ Full Story ]
book reviews
Edited by Hal Alexander and Phil Griffiths Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2003 [ Full Story ]
MUA ChampPort worker Jim Gray, 50, is watching the road races in Athens with special interest. It could have been him racing for gold. The former boiler maker and deckhand, is also NSW Cyclist of the Year in his age group. What’s more he got a gold medal in the nationals last year and a silver and bronze this year. [ Full Story ]
The Big BlueIn working class parlance, a ‘blue’ was the term for an industrial disruption – a strike or a lockout. The 1951 waterfront lockout in New Zealand was, up until that time, the biggest ‘blue’ of them all and still holds attention today as a seminal event in the nation’s industrial and political history. [ Full Story ]
politics
CANBERRA CALLING: MUA member and Brisbane wharfie Sean Ambrose, 26, is contesting the federal seat of Wide Bay for Labor against Minister for Agriculture Warren Truss. [ Full Story ]
Election LottoWant a safe bet? Well the Labor Party want the average punter to know that a vote for Howard in 2004 will mean Costello takes the jackpot in 2006, if not 2005. [ Full Story ]
Costello's ClubIF the Howard Government is re-elected, we will not get a Howard Government for the next four years. Sometime, in a year or two, he will retire and Treasurer Peter Costello will likely take over. [ Full Story ]
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