12/12/2024
GLOBAL DOCKWORKERS SOLIDARITY WITH QUBE WORKERS: ITF / IDC
MARITIME UNION OF AUSTRALIA &
MARITIME UNION OF NEW ZEALAND DOCKWORKERS
The Maritime Union of Australia membership working for one of Australia’s most notorious anti-union companies, Qube, has been taking protected industrial action for over three months to settle a new collective agreement across 21 ports around Australia. Australian dockers are fighting for wage justice, ending fatigue related rostering, a safer workplace and other industry benchmark outcomes, a campaign
being fought against an employer that lifted their profits by 148% during the last agreement, when workers inflation adjusted wages collapsed by 14%, a time in
which dockers were working during Covid and Qube were gouging profits.
Qube are forcing workers to negotiate separate agreements across ports, as an industrial strategy within Australia’s enterprise employment system.
A system designed to destroy industry employment and have dockworkers compete against each other, leading to reduced wages and conditions, less safety and less job
security. Qube must be defeated!
The MUA will be taking protected industrial action at multiple ports on December 16, 2024, in a Global Day of Dockers Action coordinated across Australia, New Zealand
and the world. We are asking for international solidarity on this day to demonstrate the commitment of the global dockers community in our collective support for the Maritime Union of Australia and the Maritime Union of New Zealand in their
campaigns for collective agreements.
The industrial campaign is in full swing in Australia with New Zealand heading in a similar direction. Qube remain intent on smashing workers whose unions refuse to destroy the recently achieved industry standards.
Qube are Australia’s largest integrated provider of import and export logistics, owning ports, transport and logistics operations around Australia and the region
operating in 200 locations. Qube use an army of industrial relations specialists to implement union busting strategies, including strike breakers in an attempt to dismantle worker’s power. Qube’s bastardry will not succeed!
It’s time for us to fight back together, strong, united and determined through a Global Day of Dockers Action against Qube and the maritime bosses that are benefitting
from their anti-union agenda.
The International Transport Workers Federation and the International Dockworkers Council are working together to secure justice for dockworkers; we know that you will too!
We want to see the following actions against all K-Line and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) vessels in your port, two of Qube’s major clients relying on smashing dockworkers, we rely on dockworkers coming together to win for all dockworkers!
Take the document titled “To Employers of Dockworkers Stevedoring K-Line
and MSC Vessels” and provide a copy to:
I. Your employer
II. The Captain of all K-Line or MSC vessels being stevedored in your workplace.
Record your action and send to the email addresses listed below:
- Take a photo displaying the solidarity of your workplace with MUA Qube dockworkers
- Take any action your union deems necessary and within your capacity
Send photos of your actions to [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
