The strike will leave ships in 10 ports from Cairns to Melbourne to Geraldton with limited tugboat services on Friday morning.
did so this year – but it would be the first to take it as far as a Fair Work Commission hearing.
Friday’s strike will see Svitzer workers at the Cairns, Newcastle, Sydney, Port Kembla, Adelaide, Fremantle, Geraldton and Albany ports stop work for four hours from 9am , while their colleagues in Melbourne and Brisbane will strike for 24 hours. But Mr Newlyn accused the company of using COVID-19 as an excuse to strip workers of basic rights and that it was “hell-bent on going down the path of [EBA] termination”.
“They’ve used COVID to justify their attacks, but actually, they and their parent company [AP Moller Maersk] have recorded massive profits because of the supply chain difficulties.”
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