Time to scrape the MUA barnacle off the waterfront
The behaviour of Australia’s maritime union dinosaur to protect its labour monopoly on the docks is surely enough to justify finally dealing with the unfinished business of the 1998 waterfront dispute.
As revealed in Monday’s The Australian Financial Review, the Maritime Union of Australia’s rolling industrial action across the nation’s already gridlocked ports is pouring misery upon misery amid the global pandemic that has disrupted international supply chains and the extended lockdowns in the country’s two biggest cities.
Lockdown-hit businesses now face further container ship congestion and additional months of delays holding up the arrival of imported stock.
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