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If a six-month ban on all strikes is a victory, what else do the unions have in store?

This struggle is not just about the wages and conditions of 582 tugboat workers, but a new chapter of class warfare.

This article was originally published in 1999, one year after Patrick Terminals sacked its entire workforce, initiating a bitter dispute involving maritime workers and the working class as a whole.

The main tugboat operator for Australia’s major ports is warning it will lock out its workforce in a stalemate threatening to leave goods languishing offshore ahead of Christmas.

A Socialist Equality Party member for 15 years, Virginia was 69 years old when she succumbed to an aggressive, inoperable and untreatable cancer, only three months after receiving the diagnosis.

The four-hour stoppage is the latest in a string of sporadic and limited industrial action called by the maritime unions.

The former prime minister helped ruffle a few feathers at one of the nation’s most powerful lobby groups

It appears a senior Pharmacy Guild figure took a call from the Prime Minister’s Office in September 2020 before claiming wharfies’ industrial action had caused shortages of cholesterol and cancer drugs.

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Unions are urging the Albanese government to immediately scrap a “loophole” that allows businesses to axe pay and conditions during bargaining.