Live News Feed: Maritime Union of Australia
Guilty as charged: Patrick in court
The Maritime Union of Australia today welcomed the Melbourne Magistrate Court findings that Patrick Stevedores was guilty of discrimination against a health and safety representatives under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 - SECT 76.
17 January 2011 [Read More]
MUA joins opposition to toxic ship
MUA congratulates Denmark for refusing to handle Australian toxic waste
03 December 2010 [Read More]
Ship reform on course - minister
MUA congratulates Federal Government on release of implementation details on shipping industry reform
01 December 2010 [Read More]
MUA trumpets World Maritime Day
The Maritime Union of Australia has urged all Australians to recognise today (September 23) as World Maritime Day, as designated by the United Nations.
23 September 2010 [Read More]
Fighting films now online
Wharfie's Fighting Films clips now showing on Australian Screen online
21 September 2010 [Read More]
MUA's Paddy Crumlin is ITF President
MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin has become the first Australian president of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) following his election at their quadrennial Congress in Mexico City last week.
17 August 2010 [Read More]
MUA leads ITF youth
Paul McAleer, MUA Sydney Branch Secretary, elected as the inaugural chair of the ITF Young Transport Workers Committee with Co-Chair Fatima Aguado from CCOO.
05 August 2010 [Read More]
Wharfie's plea - no more job deaths
"No family should sit and wait at the end of the working day for a loved one who never returns" - Freo Wharfie Ash Huish tells the Howard Sattler show, 6PR NewsTalk, yesterday on learning of the death of a workmate
15 July 2010 [Read More]
Death on the wharves
POAGS wharves shut nationwide today for 24 hours in all 15 ports after the death of a waterside worker. MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin says enough is enough. Urgent Government action is required.
14 July 2010 [Read More]
Coastal ships are Oz workplaces
MUA calls for inquiry into shippers' concerted behaviour
13 July 2010 [Read More]
Ship moguls cry poor over crew wages
Perhaps emboldened by the success of the mining giants forcing a compromise on the resources tax shipping conglomerates have started a push with the Murdoch press for ongoing exploitation of foreign crew on our coastal shipping highways
12 July 2010 [Read More]
ANZAC victory for offshore workers
ANZAC spirit gives Kiwi workers pay parity with their Aussie comrades in offshore industry
28 May 2010 [Read More]
Godfather of May Day turns 80
George Gotsis, communist, freedom fighter and retired wharfie turned 80 yesterday and the MUA Sydney Branch put on a party for him.
26 May 2010 [Read More]
Vale Chicka Dixon
MUA guard of honour alongside Rabbitos for state funeral, Town Hall, Sydney where MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin paid tribute to former wharfie and Aboriginal activist Chicka Dixon struck down by asbestos
01 April 2010 [Read More]
Union warns of more oil spills
The Maritime Union of Australia today declared the grounding of the Chinese coal ship Shen Neng 1 on the Great Barrier Reef a terrible outcome for the environment, but warned unless urgent and positive moves were taken to revitalise Australian shipping other disasters may be in store.
05 April 2010 [Read More]
Tigers pip Jets for Solidarity Cup
Henson Park was the place to be last Saturday if you wanted to see spine-tingling finishes to senior Rugby League games.
15 March 2010 [Read More]
MUA sponsors Jets Tigers rugby match
The Jets and the Tigers man the barricades this Saturday ...
and the coveted trophy is the appropriately named Solidarity Shield, recognising the industrial working-class and trade union heritage of both of these NSW Rugby League 1908 foundation clubs.
12 March 2010 [Read More]
Wharfies fighting cancer
Laingy's Lion Hearts (Patricks) take out the shield at Souths Sydney Junior Leagues Club boxing tournament fund raiser for kids with cancer, Tuesday night
11 March 2010 [Read More]
Yr of the Seafarer: Action needed
As the Minister for Transport officially launched the International Year of the Seafarer today, the head of the Maritime Union of Australia warned that the country would pay dearly if it not take urgent measures to revitalise the Australia shipping industry - main employer of merchant seafarers.
09 March 2010 [Read More]
Guest workers on $38/day a disgrace
The Tongan-owned vessel Hakula berthed in Adelaide is under increasing pressure from the International Transport Worker Federation (ITF) to pay it's Tongan crew adequate wages
10 February 2010 [Read More]
ITF to the rescue of imprisoned crew
Crew on board the Japanese flagged Adriatic Highway, currently under arrest in Adelaide Harbour called for the assistance of the ITF yesterday after they were being denied shore leave.
08 February 2010 [Read More]
Dispute brewing over OZ wheat
Chinese crew fish for dinner in Wallaroo owed $47,000 in backpay
05 February 2010 [Read More]
Call for support for ship campaign
The Maritime Union is calling for support for its campaign to have the Rudd Government adopt reforms to support Australian shipping on our coast in place of foreign flagged vessels and guest workers on our domestic freight routes
07 August 2009 [Read More]
MUA Blake Art Prize
The MUA has teamed up with the Blake Society to award a $5,000 Blake Prize for Human Justice. This new award category will acknowledge and promote the work of artists issues of justice.
16 June 2009 [Read More]
Vale Gary Coombs
Gary Coombs, son of former MUA leader John Coombs and Patrick picket veteran dies after a long illness
01 May 2009 [Read More]
Voices from the Ships
Australian seafarers and their union
Book Launch
Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, 07 April 2009, 5.30pm
05 April 2009 [Read More]
Explosives overboard threaten coast
Ship of shame loses containers of ammonium nitrate in heavy seas
11 March 2009 [Read More]
Painting and Politics
Constellations - paintings by Peter Neilson
19 July 2007 [Read More]
MUA Hungry Mile Name Campaign
UnionsNSW has endorsed the Maritime Union push to have the East Darling Harbour named The Hungry Mile in recognition of its maritime heritage and the men and women who worked the wharves and ships for two centuries.
05 August 2006 [Read More]
Award winning filmmaker in Sydney
Canadian filmmaker Elaine Briere is at the Valhalla Cinema, Glebe, tomorrow night for a screening of her two films - Betrayed on the biggest world strike of the 20th century and Bitter Paradise on East Timor, a book launch and forum with the film-maker
11 May 2005 [Read More]
Court Victory for Maritime Unions
Major blow to foreign shipping & Howard Govt
07 August 2003 [Read More]
Sea Wars
Maritime unions in court battle with shipowner
01 April 2002 [Read More]
Waterfront Celebrates Women's Day
It's International Women's Day and the Sydney wharves are set to celebrate with new recruits - and thanks to support from the media in getting the word out when the jobs were advertised, dozens of women have applied.
08 March 2002 [Read More]
Foreign ships a security risk
Battle to save Australian shipping intensifies as coastal security comes under the spotlight
07 March 2002 [Read More]
Women urged to go for wharfie jobs
Joint union/company bid for affirmative action
15 February 2002 [Read More]
Tampa captain knighted
The master of the Tampa Arne Rinnan knighted and made Captain of the Year
15 February 2002 [Read More]
Spy Scandal
MUA to lodge formal complaint
14 February 2002 [Read More]
MUA Stops Guest Workers on Coast
21 December 2001 [Read More]
Oil slick on Bondi Beach!
Graphic re-enactment of shipping disaster on our coast
01 November 2001 [Read More]
Unions Launch $300,000 Ad Campaign
Miners and maritime workers campaign against a Howard Government
30 October 2001 [Read More]
MUA sponsors Surfing Championships
GOLDEN BREED/ MARITIME UNION OF AUSTRALIA (MUA)
Yallingup Beach
Western Australia
OCTOBER 20TH TO 28TH.
19 October 2001 [Read More]
Workers' Bank opens Shopfront
Maritime Union provides Members Equity a counter at its One Stop Shop
17 October 2001 [Read More]
Oil Slick Glebe Island
Flag of Convenience ship pollutes Sydney Harbour
11 October 2001 [Read More]
Koori MUA Challenge Surf Comp
Koori & MUA surfers stage dramatic protest
in defence of our coastline, sand, sea & surf
28 September 2001 [Read More]
World Maritime Day - Sept 27th
26 September 2001 [Read More]
Protest & Ceremony Mark Maritime Day
MEDIA RELEASE
Mariners the world over gather to commemorate the impact
of the global shipping industry on seafarers & our environment
21 September 2001 [Read More]
Govt to blame for Ansett crash
The Maritime Union has pledged its support to the estimated 60,000 workers— casualties of the crash of Ansett Airlines.
14 September 2001 [Read More]
ITF says PM Tampa action illegal
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has warned the Australian Government that its actions in turning away the vessel Tampa are illegal under international treaties to which the country is a signatory.
31 August 2001 [Read More]
SAS Storming of Tampa Deplorable
MEDIA RELEASE
August 30, 2001
Unions call on IMO to break deadlock
30 August 2001 [Read More]
Call to Assist Tampa Crew
Federal Government acts in contravention of international law by shunning ship and crew in distress
28 August 2001 [Read More]
Legal Win for Wharfie Widows
Widows of Australian waterside workers killed by exposure to asbestos will benefit after a breakthrough settlement for 11 women in Melbourne, yesterday.
02 August 2001 [Read More]
Top Talent at MUA Surf comp
Surfers, seafarers & Greenpeace mark 10th anniversary of Kirki shipping disaster with oily protest
13 July 2001 [Read More]
Good Riddance to Reith
Maritime workers celebrate departure of ‘the minister for mass sackings’ industrial mercenaries, balaclavas & dogs on the docks
29 June 2001 [Read More]
Green Bans on Black Ships
Union call for get tough measures aimed at cleaning up the world’s oceans this World Environment Day
04 June 2001 [Read More]
Fare Free Day on the Ferries
MUA Protest Workers' Comp
19 April 2001 [Read More]
MUA gears up for Patrick’s II
Angry members prepare for battle royal over lost conditions
18 April 2001 [Read More]
MUA Rides Anti-pollution Wave
Union takes its shipping campaign to Bell’s Beach surf contest
12 April 2001 [Read More]
Dockside
Big turn out for Coombs retirement
on eve of Patrick Dispute anniversary
06 April 2001 [Read More]
McGauchie Appointment
Another job for the boys?
22 March 2001 [Read More]
Nuclear Titanics
MUA joins Greenpeace campaign to stop our region becoming a nuclear highway for substandard ships carrying nuclear waste
15 March 2001 [Read More]
Union bans on Tapiola ship
Wharfies guard against foot & mouth outbreak
14 March 2001 [Read More]
Australian shippers promote slavery
MUA tells of floating sweatshops on our coast each day
06 March 2001 [Read More]
MUA prosecutes Patrick
Crippled workers in Commission
01 March 2001 [Read More]
Oily Surfer Protest
A seafarer will drench himself in oil today in protest at the Federal Government policy of allowing ships of shame replace Australian vessels on our coast.
02 February 2001 [Read More]
Seafarers go Country Western
MUA song writing competition - $500 prize
19 January 2001 [Read More]
MUA Pledges support to NZ wharfies
MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin has pledged union support for besieged waterside workers battling a US multinational and a rogue stevedoring company on the New Zealand waterfront.
12 January 2001 [Read More]
No back-up for army
Defence force left without food and supplies
07 December 2000 [Read More]
MUA bans shipping imports
MUA National Secretary John Coombs today announced waterside workers nationwide would instigate safety bans on shipments of raw asbestos coming into the country.
24 November 2000 [Read More]
3 ships of shame, 5 dead
Govt shipping policy a disaster
15 November 2000 [Read More]
MUA prosecutes Patrick
Crippling injuries at Port Botany
25 October 2000 [Read More]
Double Trouble for Peter Reith
MEDIA RELEASE
OCTOBER 11, 2000
Reith’s day in court draws nearer as
Federal Court dismisses Govt appeal to hide secret waterfront documents
11 October 2000 [Read More]
MUA calls for release of Burmese
Protest in Canberra, Burmese Embassy, 1pm, Friday September 8th
07 September 2000 [Read More]
MUA call for action against Burma
Maritime Union calls for action against Burmese junta
31 August 2000 [Read More]
Robots on the wharves
Mr Corrigan should invite journalists and others out to Port Botany, Sydney, to witness his robotic straddle in action, before he can expect anyone to take his latest claims seriously.
14 August 2000 [Read More]
Corruption dominates world shipping
The world’s shipping industry is dominated by a culture of corruption, exploitation, extortion, bribery and the
abuse of human rights, according to a joint submission by the Maritime Union and the International Transport
Workers’ Federation to the first ever global inquiry into international shipping safety standards, law and
practices in Sydney, this afternoon.
24 July 2000 [Read More]
Landmark Legal Ruling on Asbestos
Court finds Commonwealth authority breached duty of care to waterside workers
21 July 2000 [Read More]
Rice for Timor
A joint effort involving the Maritime Union of Australia, the Rice Growers' Co-op, the Navy, Toll Logistics, a community aid group and a local MP, has resulted in a 40 tonne shipment of rice being loaded for East Timor, today.
05 July 2000 [Read More]
Maritime unions take Govt. to court
Minister alleged in breach of Navigation Act
01 June 2000 [Read More]
Union Bans on Fijian Shipments
The Maritime Union protest bans on Fijian cargo kicked off today with waterside workers in Melbourne refusing to handle around 50 containers of general cargo bound for Suva onto the Colombus Queensland.
29 May 2000 [Read More]
Crew Prevent Ship from Sailing
11 May 2000 [Read More]
Union takes minister to court
Deputy PM alleged in breach of Navigation Act
09 May 2000 [Read More]
Don’t Blame the Wharfies!
MEDIA RELEASE
April 12, 2000
Bad government & bad management
to blame for falling crane rates
12 April 2000 [Read More]
Reith's Day in the Dock Draws Near
MUA members celebrate court ruling on 2nd anniversary of the Patrick dispute.
07 April 2000 [Read More]
Wharfies Ban Weevil Ship
Another rustbucket on our coast
24 March 2000 [Read More]
Senate ‘guts’ ‘ships from hell’ bill
Opposition prevents deregulation and degradation of the Australian shipping industry on par with scandalous conditions in our nursing homes
17 March 2000 [Read More]
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