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Signed letter to Paddy Crumlin on the 12th Jan 2016

Despite being a busy news day, Alcoa's actions still attracted some mainstream media coverage:

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today strongly condemned the raid early this morning (Wednesday) on the MV Portland in the Australian home port for which it is named.

Five crew members aboard Alcoa ship the MV Portland were woken at 1am this morning by up to 30 security guards, handed their passports and forcibly removed from the vessel.

ITF President Paddy Crumlin said: “The ITF and international unions continue to show their solidarity with the workers on the front line at Portland because if it can happen to them it can ha

Portland crew member Brett Kolpin wrote this letter to the editor of the Portland Observer:

Articles include:  Qld Branch Committee Meeting, Svitzer Towage, Protect, QUBE

The crew of the MV Portland has prepared this letter to the editor of the Portland Observer in response to the one in the newspaper from the manager of the smelter, Peter Chellis on January 1

  Message on behalf of the Seafarers International Union of North Ameria