The Maritime Union of Australia is carrying out a nationally coordinated protected industrial action campaign on the Australian waterfront.
It has been targeting international shipping and container terminals in Australia. Now it is targeting the towage sector with an extensive series...
Australia’s main waterfront union, the Maritime Union of Australia (a division of the CFMMEU) clearly has a problem with reality, or the meaning of words, or both.
It’s the only explanation that fits the latest round of nonsensical utterances from the union.
The MUA is trying to mislead when it says that “co-ordinated national industrial action is neither planned, nor possible”.
It is a fact that that the union has been granted Protected Action Orders at Hutchison Sydney, Hutchison Brisbane, DP...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/opinion-lies-and-nonsense-from-the-maritime-union/
Industrial action at the DP World container terminals around the country may just be the tip of a “protected industrial action” iceberg.
A deliberate, organised and co-ordinated campaign to cause widespread disruption across the cargo-handling waterfront appears to be underway.
Ocean freight and logistics is vital to the lives of everyday Australians no matter how far they live from the sea. It’s especially true right now that international aviation is working at a fraction of capacity.
Ships...