Australian maritime unions declare "victory" after court bans strikes at Svitzer
If a six-month ban on all strikes is a victory, what else do the unions have in store?
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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.