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This is a tribute from the Rail and Maritime Transport Union in New Zealand to worker Anthony Attard who was killed on the job earlier this week in Melbourne. 

Brother Paddy, 

The Maritime Union of Australia has delivered a letter to the US Consul General asking for a meeting to voice its concerns about the practices of mining giant Chevron.

The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has slammed industry and the Federal Government for misleading the public over the working hours of tugboat deckhands in Port Hedland.

By Andrew Casey Asia/Pacific Editor for LabourStart
 

Maritime Union of Australia members who work for the marine contractor Tidewater will walk off the job from 4am Tuesday 27th May.

The tragic death of a waterside worker at the toll shipping facility in Melbourne yesterday and of a miner at the Boggabri coal mine in NSW this morning is yet another reminder that workplace safet

The world needs a pay rise – and the best way unions can win that rise is to put women in the frontline, General-Secretary Sharan Burrow told delegates attending the International Trade Union Confe

In a Parliamentary Speech, Member for Kingsford Smith, Matt Thistlethwaite, remarked on War on the Wharves.

You can see his remarks here:

MUA members at Port Botany are participating in the Plebs Pro’s & Personalities 24-hour treadmill run for Suicide Prevention Australia. The union is sponsoring a treadmill.