The Maritime Union of Australia wants Port Waratah Coal Services to provide private health insurance for its employees in the wake of the Kooragang Island cancer scare.
Unions will, as expected, kick $2 per member into an ACTU campaign war chest each year until 2015 as they step up the fight against the Federal Coalition, conservative state governments and "hostil
The Maritime Union of Australia has criticised Caltex's decision to close its Kurnell refinery, saying it could have ramifications for shipping jobs in the Australian coastal trade.
MUA Delegates attending the MUA-AWU offshore Alliance Conference held on Monday and Tuesday in Fremantle emerged with a renewed enthusiasm to campaign hard and strong with the community to protect
Patrick's management has resorted to its mean and tricky ways of 1998 with today's shock announcement that it will sack more than half its Port Botany workforce.
Detained Moroccan trade union leader Said Elhairech has announced that he will begin a hunger strike next week in protest at his continuing detention on fantastical charges of sabotage and endanger
Following Ford Australia's announcement that it will shed 440 jobs at its Broadmeadows and Geelong plants, unions are committed to working closely with the company and other carmakers to ensure Aus