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The wharfies’ union halts three months of industrial action before a federal government push to terminate the strikes because they were damaging the WA economy.

The Attorney-General will apply to terminate the maritime unions’ three-month strike after the McGowan government requested her assistance due to the damage to the economy.

The Ports Minister urged Fair Work to stop three months of strikes at Fremantle Port because they were threatening the state’s economy. But she failed to show up at the hearing.

Australian union agrees to enforce ten-year strike ban at Melbourne port Over recent weeks the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has brokered new enterprise agreements (EAs) with major stevedoring companies across a number of Australian ports. The agreement that most glaringly encapsulates the MUA’s decades-long drive to incorporate itself ever deeper into management structures and cement its position as an industrial police force for the stevedoring employers is the four-year deal it brokered with Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT). Victoria International Container Terminal [...

Wharfies fire first salvo in fight for robo-dock Share Wharfies will stop work for four hours at the Port of Melbourne next week as the first salvo in what is being pitched as a battle between old-school industrial practices and 21st century technology. The Maritime Union of Australia has given the automated Victoria International Container Terminals (VICT) eight days’ notice for its half-shift stoppage covering 128 members from 4pm to 8pm on Tuesday, February 16. Unions previously blocked the Webb Dock terminal for two and half weeks in 2017.  Arsineh Houspian The protected strike is the ...