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From Australia’s Daily Telegraph earlier this week:
Police have surrounded Station Pier in Port Melbourne as a community protest about safety concerns for dock workers continues.
At least half a dozen Public Order Response units lined up at the dock, where about 20 protesters were gathered at 6am.
Police moved in to secure the site on Monday after weeks of protests against shipping logistics company Qube.
Protesters told the Herald Sun the company’s occupational health and safety officer was sacked for raising safety issues, and four other workers were subsequently sacked for refusing to take over the role because they did not have appropriate training.
Protesters said they wanted to make their “presence felt” by trying to disrupt freight coming off the Spirit of Tasmania.
Several protesters stood in front of freight trucks as they left the port after the Spirit docked, but they were quickly escorted out of the way by police.
Other protesters went around a police cordon to stand in front of more trucks but armed police forced them back.
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News that unnecessary reform in the ports of Israel has been delayed is being welcomed by the ITF.
Plans were announced earlier this year to open two new ports in Ashdod and Haifa, but a panel of National Labor Court judges has now ruled that no action will go ahead until September 2014.
It was ordered that the Israeli ITF-affiliated union representing port workers, Histadrut, will now have to be consulted by the government in a period of ‘intense negotiations in good faith’ over the potential impact of the two new ports on workers at the existing terminals. Histradut previously accused the government of failing to deal with the ‘devastating repercussions on the existing ports as a result of the establishment of new ports’ and of threatening behaviour.
A resolution was passed during the ITF dockers’ section conference in July in support of Histradut, expressing deep concern over the situation and outlining the need for regulation of fair competition and equal conditions between the new and existing ports.
ITF acting general secretary Steve Cotton said: “We welcome this move. For the benefit of all parties concerned, a democratic process should always be...
From The Stand:
ILWU Walk the Coast events happen up and down the West Cast to support worthy charities.
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and community supporters host annual ILWU Walk the Coast events up and down the West Coast in the fight against childhood cancer, pancreatic cancer and ovarian cancer. The Pacific Northwest’s event — which will feature live music, kids’ games and activities, a car show, food and beer gardens, a raffle and silent auction, and a fireboat and tugboat display — will be Sunday, Aug. 11 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Foss Waterway Seaport, 705 Dock St. in Tacoma.
Admission is $20 (children 10 and under free) and 100% of the proceeds go to the the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN). Pancreatic cancer has no early detection tests. The survival rates have not improved in over 40 years. This disease is extremely serious and too often strikes, leaving few options. ILWU Walk the Coast in the Pacific Northwest, working with the community, will bring together as many resources as possible to help the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network in its goal to discover early detection methods and a cure.
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