Dockers at the Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) in Melbourne have agreed to extend their industrial action which is due to start with a four hour strike on 16 February.
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A two-day Australian Fair Work Commission (FWC) hearing due to start in today has been cancelled following an agreement between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Terminals to start new negotiations.
According to carrier representatives, Shipping Australia Limited (SAL) the FWC was due to begin deliberations whether to grant Patrick Terminal’s request to suspend all industrial action, but the two sides have agreed to new talks with a deadline for reaching agreement on 1 December.
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Container freight rates from East Asia to Australia have reached a 10-year high, rising to over US$1,648/TEU as of 9 October 2020, according to the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index.
Container movements along the route have rebounded as Australia seeks to gradually reopen its economy after a series of Covid-19-related lockdowns. Transhipments from Australia and from other regions have also been rising.
This has spurred liner operators, including ZIM and MSC to add more capacity to the route,...
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The ship operator’s representative body Shipping Australia Limited (SAL) has welcomed the compromise agreement reached by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and DP World Australia (DPWA).
Unions and management at DPWA have agreed in principle to a deal that will end industrial action at DPWA terminals in Port Botany, Fremantle, Melbourne and Brisbane, while offering dockers better conditions.
SAL CEO Rod Nairn, an outspoken critic of the union’s tactics, said, “it is certainly positive and...
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The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has written to Patrick Terminals voluntarily withdraw all union action up to the date of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) hearing scheduled to take place on 26 and 27 October.
In a statement the union said it had updated its offer to the company, saying it would roll over the existing deal for two years, with an “extended period of industrial certainty,” that would come with, what it says is an industry standard 2.5% annual pay increase.
The MUA has managed to...
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In what appears to be an intensification of the Australian docker’s dispute the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has accused management at Patrick Terminals of “spreading community fear” and lying with the aim of attacking workplace rights.
Patrick Terminals has made an application to Australia’s Fair Work Commission to end the dockers dispute at Sydney’s Botany Bay port following two years of wrangling between terminal operators and the unions.
Last week, hopes of an end to the long running...
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Dock workers in Port Botany, Sydney Australia, are expected to reach a negotiated agreement to their dispute with DP World Australia (DPWA) following a moratorium on industrial action last week.
Ongoing negotiations after the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and DPWA decided to negotiate a settlement appear to have borne fruit as the two sides are reportedly close to a final agreement, according to local sources.
“The Maritime Union’s decision to withdraw all industrial action at DP World Sydney...
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Dubai terminal operator DP World was celebrating on 31 January as the Federal Court Of Australia (FCA) decided to grant an interim interlocutory injunction preventing the dockers’ union from further industrial action.
However, while the employer’s celebrated the wharfies and their union were outraged at what they see as an “attack on the fundamental democratic rights of all Australian workers.”
On a dramatic day, 31 January, the FCA took, what some regard as “unprecedented” decision to prevent...
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DP World, which is the largest stevedore in Australia employing more than 1,800 waterfront workers, notified employees in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle that previously approved leave had been cancelled immediately, according to Maritime Union Australia (MUA).
The workers were unable to fulfill family obligations and, apart from that, the the company also banned workers from meeting with union representatives on company property, kicking union officials out of car-parks where they...
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