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DPWA finalises all four EBAs

23 February 2021

After two-and-a-half years of negotiation, DP World Australia and the Maritime Union of Australia have finalised enterprise agreements at DP World terminals at Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Fremantle.

A final ballot held yesterday (Monday 22 February 2021) saw the majority of employees vote in favour of the new enterprise agreements.

Shipping Australia’s CEO, Melwyn Noronha, commented: “it is pleasing to see that the EBAs have been finalised. In the long term, it would be beneficial if there...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/dpwa-finalises-all-four-ebas/

Union-Patrick Fair Work hearing cancelled pending further talks

26 October 2020

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

7 August 2020

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/