RESOLUTIONS

National council moves to lock in the union’s future as the vanguard of the labour movement, wielding workers’ capital against exploitation and modern day slavery, while restoring Australian shipping to coastal and strategic trades; creating a just transition for fossil fuel workers in offshore wind while guarding against robots and workers in third world call centres operating our wharves like ports of convenience

WORKERS’ CAPITAL Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Note the Workers’ Capital

Report; (ii) Acknowledge the importance of the MUA’s and ITF’s role in progressing and leading the global and Australian workers’ capital agenda and work program; (iii) Requests that officials ensure they continue to explore opportunities to include a capital strategies element to union industrial, organising and growth campaigns; and (iv) Authorises the National

Secretary to continue to allocate resources to this body of work.

COMMUNICATION REPORT Recommendations:

(i) The finance team do a full audit of all subscriptions to online news and coordinate a national account with individual logins; (ii) Branches should ensure that at least one staff member is responsible for ensuring the website is updated and social media is kept active.

OFFSHORE WIND AND RENEWABLE ENERGY Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Note the report; (ii) Continue to campaign for the Offshore Clean Energy

Infrastructure Bill to be progressed; (iii) Work to ensure that the proposed offshore wind projects are built and operated with good union agreements and offer the best possible examples of a just transition;

(iv) Develop a work program to ensure that offshore renewable energy resources are included in the next Integrated System Plan for the electricity system; (v) Put union resources into research for the potential for offshore wind in Australia, and the rationale for why it should be included in planning for the electricity system; vi) Continue to work to build understanding of and support for a just transition and good union jobs in new lowemissions industries across the environmental, climate, and union movement; vii) Continue to support and participate in the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy network in Australia and globally.

SEACARE Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Note the report; (ii) Get the required advice to ensure the union can make quality submissions on the consultations on Specified Diseases for Seacare and exemptions for Seacare, and coordinate these with other maritime unions as far as possible. (iii) Continue to alert the Seacare

Authority if we have any concerns that employers may be covered by Seacare but are not paying into the Berth Levy.

MEMBERSHIP Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Note the report; (ii) Endorse the inclusion of

Grade 1A into the Divisional membership rules and that it be sent to the Divisional National

Legal Director for final drafting and approval.

STEVEDORING Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Note the report; (ii) That the union continue to work to dispel the economic myths within the Houston report.

Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Endorse the report; (ii) Continue dialogue with the ITF dockers’ section regarding HPA automation plans.

Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Endorse the report; (2) Pursue Qube JobKeeper wage theft through legal challenge.

Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Endorse the report; (ii) Endorse and resource campaigning initiatives to increase industry awareness prior to the next round of waterfront bargaining.

GROWTH AND CAMPAIGNS Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Note the growth and campaigns team industrial report; (ii) Support the work to retain Bass

Strait fleet and recognise this work as a centrepiece to the broader MUA shipping campaign; (iii) Endorse the work to have the

Aurora Australis repurposed as an

Emergency Response Vessel; (iv) Endorse the National Office and the Tasmanian Branch lobbying and agitating for a detailed policy and plan to secure the long-term future of TT-Line; (v) Endorse negotiating with TT-Line to deliver job security for our members (particularly caterers) in the downturn caused by COVID-19 and the closure of international and state borders; (vi) Endorse the National Office and

Tasmanian Branch to work to secure employment of Australian seafarers on the Everest until the delivery and commencement of service of the Nuyina; (vii) Note the attacks on members employed in the towage industry and endorse the

National Secretary to ensure the necessary resources are available to defend these attacks; (viii) Note the MUA victory in defending the prosecution from the FWO in the MV Portland matter and recognise the hard work put in by everyone involved, particularly Aaron Neal and our other legal support; (ix) Endorse the National Office and

Victorian branch to recommence lobbying of the Victorian

Government to ensure an

Australian crew is re-employed on the Victorian-West Australian

Alumina trade as a part of the requirements of Alcoa in return for future taxpayer subsidies; (x) Reconfirm and endorse the ongoing work to defend

Australian seafarers’ employment within the NWSSSC

LNG tanker fleet.

SHIPPING Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Endorse the report; (ii) Support continued lobbying and campaigning for greater

Australian content in CSL’s shipping operation.

MUA POLICY DRAFT Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Endorse the report and that councillors consider this first draft and prepare any comments, inclusions or ideas for the final draft to be published as a policy booklet.

INTERNATIONAL

Anti-Imperialist Working Class

Platform

Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Endorse the report (ii) The MUA supports the Venezuelan initiative and will continue to participate.

Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Endorse the Report (ii) Urges all branches to affiliate to

IPAN or an IPAN affiliated peace group in your area.

MARITIME SAFETY Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Note the report and continue to adequately resource this work; (ii) Continue to pursue a review of the Marine Safety (Domestic

Commercial Vessel) National Law

Act, and the Navigation Act; (iii) Support the extension of the jurisdiction of the Australian

Transport Safety Bureau to cover all parts of the maritime industry; (iv) Develop a strategy to educate maritime industry participants about the risks of the current

DCV Act framework and to keep building the case for change; (v) Continue to track all AMSA consultations and prepare submissions where necessary; (vi) Assist MUA branches with maritime safety issues, safety management systems, and manning and crewing of vessels; (vii) Develop training programs for union members and officials about current maritime safety regulation; (viii) Develop a STCW-aligned DCV qualifications framework proposal.

Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Note the report; (ii) Note the successful outcomes from the union’s cabotage campaign in

protecting seafarer employment and building Australian content in the maritime industry; and (iii) Authorise the National Secretary to continue to allocate resources to the national shipping and policy work of the union and to the cabotage campaign.

MUA women Recommendations:

That: (i) The MUA division support the work by the women’s committee; (ii) National Council endorse support for 16 days of action and the campaign to ratify ILO C-190; (iii) National Council will participate in and ensure the branch visibly participates in the 16 days of action; (iv) National Council support further investigation into whether the union will re-engage with the foundation; (v) National council will support a rule change to allow for AA position on

National Executive; (vi) National Council commit to ensuring the Equality Charter is implemented and available in branches.

ALP POLICY Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Supports the continued work on the ALP policy platform; (ii) Supports Mich-Elle Myers as

Vice President and endorses her candidacy in the next election for this position.

Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Endorse the Women, First Nations and Youth Monthly Meetings as an important initiative to increase the activism of women, First Nations and youth in our union and to educate and involve the broader union in matters important to them; (ii) Note the report.

FINANCES Recommendations:

(i) National Council directs

National Executive to facilitate an external review of operations in the new union to identify operational efficiencies and savings; (ii) Further, National Council to be presented with a breakdown of expenditure in the MUA budget including flights, accommodation, expenses with a view to reducing these costs.

ORGANISING Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Provides resources for a national organising plan for SeaLink; (ii) Accelerate review of the Maritime

Tourism and Chartered Vessel

Award 2010.

DATABASE Recommendations:

That National Council: (i) Set aside appropriate resources for a new integrated membership system; (ii) Resource a communication content manager for all web, e-news and social media platforms.

NYRSTAR BROKE Recommendation:

That National Council: (i) Include Inco vessel ICS Silver

Lining in the campaign to bring it under Australian manning.

FUTURE OF THE UNION Recommendation:

(i) National Council direct National

Executive to include succession planning and future of the union on the agenda at the next National

Executive. •

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SHADOW OVER FREMANTLE PORT State government plan to shut down Fremantle flawed

Astate government move to shut down Australia’s best performing port, Fremantle, and develop an automated port in Kwinana, is meeting determined union opposition.

Not only are thousands of jobs at stake; a sensitive habitat for dolphins, sharks, sea lions and fairy penguins would be destroyed. “The decision is flawed,” said Christy Cain, National President Maritime Union of Australia and West Coast Branch Secretary. “Its modelling and forecasting are inept and its forecasting is fanciful.” “Fremantle port has the best crane rate in the nation – 36 “Shutting the boxes an hour. That’s faster than the automated terminals port will simply on the east coast, faster than Rotterdam or Antwerp (28) and it will not hit full capacity until 2050,” Cain said. favour the wealthy Fremantle, a publicly owned port, puts around $100M and powerful.” into government coffers a year. “Shutting the port will simply favour the wealthy and powerful, particularly property developers greedy to get their hands on foreshore land to build luxury apartments,” – CHRISTY CAIN • FULL STORY Cain said. p38

The union has called on the WA Labor government not to rush important economic decisions. •