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VICT finalises Enterprise Agreement with the MUA, AMOU and CEPU

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By Victoria International Container Terminal

Victoria International Container Terminal has completed its collective bargaining negotiations with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), Australian Maritime Officers Union (AMOU) and Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU).

The new proposed enterprise agreement has been successfully voted in by the company’s Operational and...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/vict-finalises-enterprise-agreement-with-the-mua-amou-and-cepu/

MUA to shut down DPWA’s Fremantle container terminal over Christmas/New Year

Pictured: container terminal operations underway; Credit Bernd Dittrich from Unsplash

Notice of a new Protected Industrial Action banning the performance of work on all ships has been given by the Maritime Union of Australia to DPWA.

The new industrial action runs from December to early January and affects the DPWA terminal in Fremantle.

Work restrictions include; various bans on employees working on tasks above their normal grade, overtime, shift extensions, accepting late call-ins and ceasing...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/mua-to-shut-down-dpwas-fremantle-container-terminal-over-christmas-new-year/

Union-Patrick Fair Work hearing cancelled pending further talks

Today’s two-day hearing before the Fair Work Commission to terminate or suspend the Maritime Union of Australia’s industrial action at Patrick Terminals has been cancelled following an agreement for further talks between the parties.

On Friday, 23 October, the MUA provided undertakings to the Fair Work Commission that committed the union to not organise or notify any industrial action against Patrick Terminals before 1 December 2020. Patrick Terminals noted, however, that there is the...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/union-patrick-fair-work-hearing-cancelled-pending-further-talks/

Waterfront strike threat: how the industrial relations environment has been – legally – manipulated to Australia’s detriment

Widespread strike action on the waterfront is now possible. Transport unions have arranged matters so that all of the major container stevedores are now operating with expired enterprise agreements.

The last major container stevedore had its enterprise agreement expire in June. Nation-wide and sector-wide protected industrial action by unions is now therefore possible under the Fair Work Act.

Some of those enterprise bargaining arrangements have in fact been expired for years because the unions...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/waterfront-strike-threat-how-the-industrial-relations-environment-has-been-legally-manipulated-to-australias-detriment/

Diez asociaciones reclaman a Bruselas la derogación del reglamento de las alianzas marítimas

Diez de las principales organizaciones europeas e internacionales representantes de los actores integrados a la logística marítima se han unido en un manifiesto que reclama a la Comisión Europea poner punto y final al reglamento de las alianzas entre navieras. Estas empresas se benefician de una exención de la legislación de Competencia de la UE que les facilita establecer estos acuerdos, el denominado Reglamento de Exención por Categorías (BER, por sus siglas en inglés), que expirará el 25 de...

http://elvigia.com/diez-asociaciones-reclaman-a-bruselas-la-derogacion-del-reglamento-de-las-alianzas-maritimas/