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Conditions on foreign ships entering Australian waters will be under scrutiny this week as the International Transport Workers’ Federation gears up to board and inspect conditions on ‘Flag of Conve

Paddy Crumlin, National Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia and President of the International Transport Workers Federation, issued the following statement of solidarity relating to the Ar

[The following appeared in The Australian]

Maritime Union of Australia National Secretary Paddy Crumlin today said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report on port productivity missed the real story.

On October 30th 2012, MUA members all over the country took part in a National Day of Action.

[From Lloyd's List, 29 October 2012]

ABC News covered the NSCOP rally in Sydney yesterday where Georga and Taylor Fitzgibbon joined hundreds of their father's comrades to demand shipping companies sign up to a code of practice for ste

The SA Branch News October, 2012 is now available.

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the passing today of one of our dearest Comrades, Victor Charles Slater. (Funeral Details Below)

More than 200 delegates from 18 countries took part in a regional Asia-Pacific meeting in solidarity with Cuba that was held in Sri Lanka’s capital of Colombo October 20-21.