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...

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Opinion: lies and nonsense from the Maritime Union

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/