Hutchison Ports Rally - SYDNEY

500+ rallied today in support of Hutchison Ports Wharfies set to lose half the workforce under a secret company restructure. Thank you to all that turned out. Matt Thistlethwaite (ALP), David Shoebridge (Greens), Rita Mallia and the CFMEU, Bob Nanva and the RTBU, Mark Lennon and UNIONS NSW, Jim Casey and the FBEU and several Fire truck loads of members.
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If you are in Sydney tomorrow and you care about ordinary people that just want to keep their jobs please get to this rally. Hutchison Ports Australia want to dump 100 wharfies and won't discuss their plans with the union. Share this post.

http://www.mua.org.au/rally_for_hutchison_ports_wharfies

The ITF International Transport Workers' Federation is challenging Hutchison Ports Holdings (HPH) over its behaviour at port facilities in Indonesia and Australia.

ITF president and dockers’ section chair Paddy Crumlin takes up the story: “My union, the MUA, has received leaked documentation outlining a plan called ‘Phoenix Rising’, which indicates that HPA is secretly planning to introduce automated straddles and automated remote quay cranes. This is union busting by automation. It’s totally contrary to the principle of ‘automation by negotiation’. It will be challenged, including legally. In the meantime the MUA has reiterated its offer to HPA to look for a negotiated solution.”

‪#‎notounionbusting‬ ‪#‎justiceatHPH‬

http://www.itfglobal.org/…/itf-challenges-hph-over-austral…/

The Maritime Union of Australia will unleash every tool available – legal, political and industrial – to stop Hutchison Ports Australia unfairly sacking almost half of its waterfront workforce.

HPA plans to cut 97 out of 224 jobs – more than 40% of its workforce - at Port Botany and Brisbane.

- See more at:http://www.mua.org.au/mua_ready_to_negotiate_while_hutchiso…

Phoenix Rising: Hutchison Ramps Up Union Busting Attempt

Posted by Ashleigh Telford on July 27, 2015

The third operator in the ports of Botany and Brisbane, Hong-Kong based Hutchison, has embarked on a union-busting campaign. The MUA will keep all members updated on developments. See this leaflet compiled by Assistant National Secretary Warren Smith with the latest.

To download, or print the below leaflet, click here.

- See more at: http://www.mua.org.au/phoenix_rising_hutchison_ramps_up_union_busting_attempt#sthash.AnVw6B5g.XNz0PZka.dpuf

DP World dockers in Southampton, England have sent this photo of support to Hutchison workers in Brisbane and Sydney! The world is watching Hutchison Ports Australia.
Solidarity!