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[Australian Financial Review, 26 February 2013]

In a further sign of the strengthening of ties between maritime workers around the globe, the MUA, US International Longshore and Warehouse Union and MUNZ inked key ports alliance agreements to bro

The ITF (International Transport Workers Federation) today proposed embattled Moroccan trade unionist Said Elhairech for the Febe Elisabeth Velasquez prize, an international award that recognises t

From across the oceans they came.

National Secretary Paddy Crumlin fired up the hundreds of delegates at the WA branch conference this morning, leading into an impassioned defence of unionism by Bill Shorten, Minister of Employment

After a day hearing from national and international maritime leaders, delegates to the Western Australia branch's conference seized an intersection to highlight the fight for a national stevedoring

Starting with a minute of silence to recognise the comrades who have been killed on the waterfront, delegates from MUA Youth, ATSI and Womens' committees gathered to hear a militant call to arms fr

As the Western Australia branch conference opened today, Prime Minister Julia Gillard greeted the delegates with a strong message of solidarity.

Hundreds of delegates to the Australian Workers Union national conference heard National Secretary Paddy Crumlin call the union movement to action, declaring this moment, "our time".