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Maritime Union of Australia members working on Svitzer Australia tugs are undertaking limited forms of legally protected industrial action in response to the company’s attempt to strip away workers’ rights and conditions.

Svitzer Australia is owned by highly-profitable multinational shipping conglomerate Maersk, the largest container ship and supply vessel operator in the world.

WHAT: Over 2,500 signatures on petition against construction of Outer Harbour

WHEN: 9:15am Thursday 22 August 2019

WHERE: Steps of Parliament House, Perth WA 

Community petition against the construction of a massive outer harbour in Cockburn Sound gained steam after Westport’s announcement of Kwinana being the only option for West Australia’s future port needs.

The maritime workers journal is the publication of the Maritime Union of Australia a division of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union.

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The latest edition of the Maritime Workers Journal is arriving in letterboxes right now. 

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Download a copy of the Maritime Workers Journal here. 

Click here to read the latest edition of the Maritime Workers' Journal which is available now to view electronically. 

Click here to read the latest edition of the Maritime Workers' Journal which is available now to view electronically.

The latest edition of the MWJ covers all of the big issues that the union and the wider-working class is facing in the wake of the election of the Abbott Government, including; attacks on shipping reform, the delivery of the most unfair Budget in recent history and the announcement of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption. 

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MUA members are a generous bunch and this charitable spirit was exhibited in true MUA-style last week when delegates attending the 2014 Tugboat Conference pieced together more than $1000 to help a three-year-old boy.