MARITIME UNION OF AUSTRALIA - WA BRANCH RANK&FILE VOICE TOUCH ONE TOUCH ALL - OFFICIAL MUA WA BRANCH MEMBERS MAGAZINE NUMBER 41 SEP 2017 HANDS NOT OFF OUR FOR SALE PORT Battles with Harbour plan MENTAL Labor game FLAWED HEALTH? CHANGES Page 16 Page 18 Page 30 BOOK.indd 1 18-Sep-17 1:29:59 AM IN THIS ISSUE CHRIS CAIN MUA WA BRANCH 3 Getting on board with the EBA ADRIAN EVANS 4 MUA delivers jobs and wage growth PT PERON JEFF CASSAR 5 Recipe for disaster WEEKEND SPECIAL DANNY CAIN 6 Batting tough negotiations We are currently running a special weekend deal for the SPECIAL REPORT Point Peron Holiday Camps, starting immediately until the 7 Inpex! Prelude! MUA Wins! December 2017 school holidays. DAN FALCONE 8 Wharfies left out in the cold Stay for two nights and get the third night free SPECIAL REPORT Only $80 for the weekend 9 The Marriage Equality vote. What you need to know Valued at $120 PAUL BRETT 10 And so it begins To book for the Camps - please contact us at the WA Branch GEORGE GAKIS office on (08) 9335 0500 or email [email protected] 11 Maersk wants the worst JACK MCCABE * Please note that September and October school holidays are 12 Offshore work picks up at last not included and the huts are only available to members who ROBB SIMM are financial with us. 14 Training centre opens WILL TRACEY Point Peron – MUA for over 60 years 15 MUA offshore campaign secures jobs and job security SPECIAL REPORT 16 The truth about the flawed outer harbour project AVAILABLE MUA WA BRANCH MERCHANDISE SPECIAL REPORT 18 Dealing with mental health 1. MUA patches - $10 SPECIAL REPORT 2. Duffle coat - $150 now $100 Chevron... now you pay back! 3. Umbrellas -$30 20 4. Women’s t-shirt (lilac, white SPECIAL REPORT WA MUA/CFMEU joint State Conference and black) $30 now $5 23 Available from the SPECIAL REPORT MUA WA Branch, Fremantle 28Another major win for Australian seafarers 1 SPECIAL REPORT 29 Progressive Labor 2 SPECIAL REPORT 30 Summary of ALP Conference KYLE MCGINN 34 Hitting the ground runnings KEITH MCCORRISTON - ITF 36 Australia leading the charge 3 ACTU 37CBA $9billion profit / Wages are going backwards 4 MUA YOUTH 38 Gaining attention SLATER & GORDON 40 Are you a victim of crime MUA WOMEN 41 Coming together to face adversity SPECIAL REPORT 42 A history of the MUA Content authorised by MUA State Secretary C. Cain, 2-4 Kwong Alley North MUA VETERANS Tipping in to Rolling Fund Fremantle 6159. Printed by PK Print, 23 Emplacement Crescent, Hamilton Hill, 6163. 43 44 FROM THE MEMBERS BOOK.indd 2 18-Sep-17 12:46:16 AM MUA WA BRANCH VALE CHARLIE WELDON YOU WILL BE MISSED!! Charlie Weldon passed away peacefully at home after a long illness. I was 13companies on board fortunate to know and love this man as a friend and great trade unionist! with Oil & Gas EBA At least every couple of weeks, we would talk to OFFSHORE OIL & GAS Just remember, we won Work on the Inpex and Prel- each other about our union. against all the odds. MUA, ude projects is now picking Members, it has been a long Charlie was a true leader, a here to stay! journey to say the least, but up and the usual companies committed republican and we are not far off conclud- DATABASE MOVING have the work. a great all-round knock- about bloke. He always stood up for the battler and ing the Offshore Oil & Gas Remember, there would not Agreements. Members, it’s been a long was a giant amongst the working-class people. To wait for jobs in the Offshore have been any hope for this Emily and all Charlie’s family and friends, we send Thirteen companies have Oil & Gas areas, but now work if the MUA had not our deepest condolences. RIP now brother. Wherev- now signed up to the EBA. we are seeing the database won the High Court decision er you are, may you have smooth seas and flowing We have had numerous move. in August last year. winds. ballots taken by our mem- VALE HANAFI RUSTANDI bership and the results have ranged from 95 per cent up All members will remember how Hanafi, who was in favour of strike action. Secretary of the Indonesian Seamans’ Union (KPI), fully supported our Union in the fight for Australian I wish to thank every jobs on the Saipem Pipeline. He always attended our official and, of course, you National Council and was very well respected in the - the membership - for your international trade union movement. patience and commitment Sadly, Hanafi suf- shown to your Union. fered a major This is an historic win for heart-attack the Union and, most impor- in Japan. He tantly, we defended ALL will be sore- Australians to have their ly missed by right to work in their own us all. RIP country - on decent wages Hanafi Ru- and conditions. standi, you were small in stature, but big in heart! From when it was put up nothing surprises at our National Conference me anymore. So, in Brisbane 18 months to all who read this, ago (where 600 delegates we will just keep boxing endorsed to progress with the on and fighting for workers’ merger) we, as a union, have rights and demanding a fair been attacked. go for all. Report by What’s wrong with two CHRISTY CAIN strong militant organisations United & stronger! They BRANCH SECRETARY coming together; coming don’t like us! And we don’t NATIONAL PRESIDENT together to fight for their care! 0407 850 084 members and for work- [email protected] ing-class people? UNION STALWARTS MUA/CFMEU Well, we now see all the shit- Members, just a couple of AMALGAMATION heads coming out from under lines to acknowledge and their rocks to attack us. thank you for sticking by Brothers and sisters... along your union during these very with many others, I have Why? Because they know hard times. been a leading advocate that this SUPER UNION will pushing for the amalgama- have the capacity to fight in The members who have done a much more strategic and tion with the CFMEU. this, know who they are – the militant way. one’s who have attended our From construction, to the Turnbull, Cash, Abetz and all rallies, pickets, sit-ins, bal- mines, to the wharfs, to the their cronies; from AMMA, lots, stop work meetings, etc. ships, to the offshore, it’s CCI, mining industry Troy Gray (ETU Vic), Chris Cain ONE POWERFUL ORGAN- employers and, last but not On behalf of all the staff and and John Setka (CFMEU Vic) ISATION! least, AIMPE and AMOU - officials, we thank you. RANK&FILE VOICE SEPTEMBER 2017 3 BOOK.indd 3 17-Sep-17 10:33:28 PM MUA WA BRANCH MUA delivers jobs and wage growth! Members at Fremantle Qube fully endorse and support the Newcastle dispute them as VSE with priority to the delivered on the key outcomes Order of Pick: we’ve locked in a next permanent jobs. Some members members endorsed from the outset. 7clear order of pick. took up the casual option in order to Those were: Drug and Alcohol Policy: Swab keep their redundancy pay and others Peaks and troughs clause: like Testing has already been imple- walked away. Four members chose 8 1Qube’s “economic clause”, it mented. to come back as priority VSE. Two gives the members options to avoid years later, all four are now back redundancies in downturns, has full Training: We have agreed that a Report by in their permanent jobs and the tide reversion when the tide turns and has 9skills gap analysis will be done ADRIAN EVANS has begun to turn across the board. triggers for promotion and upgrades and a training plan developed and BRANCH DEPUTY SECRETARY While there is still a long way to go in upturns. Importantly, the commit- discussed at each ERC meeting. to get to previous highs, the recent tees get full allocation and earnings 0401 692 528 Safety training: Linx has labour review has delivered and other data every month so that [email protected] committed to a three-day safe- • 2 new G4 permanent jobs there are never any surprises. 10 ty program for all employees, broken QUBE – NEW AGREEMENT • 5 new VSE jobs Selection Criteria for Promo- into three sessions. The first session DELIVERS JOBS • 5 new A supp jobs 2tion, Training and Redundan- • 2 new G5 and 2 new G6 up- cy: We now have an agreement in was rolled out last year with Linx We landed the Qube Agreements grades relation to a new selection criteria presenting it. The second session, run in WA earlier this year and with it • Increase maintenance hours that is transparent, values time on the by the MUA’s Mick Cross, is being came a new clause that has triggers to 33.6hr week with a $9000 job, is open to scrutiny and capable for upgrades when the hours support conducted in all ports and is about increase to a new salary above of applying to upgrades, training and half-way through. The final session them. The first test came just three 125k. redundancy. is in development and is intended to months into the new agreement with • Increased VSE guarantee back Plain English Redraft of EA: be rolled out in 1st quarter 2018. the Fremantle Labour review deliver- by $8500 to $71,820 ing five new VSE positions and five The old Patrick B&G agreement 3 Financial outcomes: Income new GWE positions, representing There are still a few issues which is messy and full of ambiguity.