MUA needs your support

[Bilan]

Comrades and Friends,

Sydney maritime workers need you today.

Why: Bass and Flinders Cruises have begun operating a cut rate service that has reduced base rates by 25%.
Cuts to safety and cuts to wages and conditions
Don’t let Companies use workchoices to smash workers rights
Privatisation of public assets cannot continue
Company refusing to negotiate with Union

Where: Number 2 Wharf, Circular Quay

Time: 3:00pm – 6:30pm today and everyday until we win!!!

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS RALLY

PASS ONTO YOUR FRIENDS

SEE YOU THERE

Yours in Solidarity,


Paul McAleer
Assistant Branch Secretary
Maritime Union of Australia
Sydney Branch

[chebol]

Victory for the MUA! Thank you for the support! (http://communistwombat.blogspot.com/2009/02/victory-for-mua-thank-you-for-support.html)

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Below is a letter of thanks from the MUA Sydney Branch to all those who offered their support and unity over the past two weeks. *************************

Dear Comrades and Friends,
I write to advise of the MUA's victory in the dispute with Bass and Flinders Cruises, the operator of the Manly Fast Ferry

The daily community assembly at Circular Quay has proven to be an effective strategy that has resulted in the company meeting with the union and entering into a Heads after Agreement which has committed the parties to a Union Collective Agreement and addressed the serious attacks safety standards, workers wages and conditions arising from the company's initial introduction of a non-union Greenfields Agreement
On behalf of the Maritime Union of Australia I would like to thank the many friends and supporters who turned out in the struggle against Bass and Flinders attempts to drive down workers wages and conditions and introduce non-union operations into the commuter transport area of work on Sydney Harbour . The company's attack has been resoundingly defeated due to the determination and unity of union members and community supporters.

This has been a significant victory for not only the MUA but for all workers still struggling against employers who insist on using the WorkChoices laws to the end.
The MUA intends to use the momentum of this victory to address other non-union operations on the harbour particularly in the charter boat area of work.

Once again thank you for your contribution to this struggle and your support during this difficult period.
Yours in struggle,

Warren Smith
Sydney Branch Secretary
Maritime Union of Australia

0400 368 945
9264 5024
[email protected]

[zapatista]

Always good to hear good news about MUA, as a five year old I was taken down to the picket line in Melbourne by my grandfather (a wharfie) in 1998...and I've been a massive leftie ever since.