Maritime Union of Australia’s Paddy Crumlin says the government has twisted the truth regarding the Port Botany protests.
Tens of thousands of shipping containers containing critical supplies await unloading off of the New South Wales coast as wharf workers at Patrick’s Terminal call for a six per cent annual pay rise each year for the next four years.
“We offered them a two-and-a-half per cent, and rollover for twelve months to get over COVID, and they rejected it,” Mr Crumlin told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “They’ve beaten this story up, they make Donald Trump look like Mother Theresa when it comes to the truth, fair dinkum.”
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