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The United National Team | Paddy Crumlin Will Tracey Warren Smith Ian Bray

The United National Team

On the Side of Seafarers
Mapping the industry Understanding the industry

Fighting for the Industry

and our jobs

Campaign for Jobs and

ships
The seagoing industry faces
major challenges and the
United National Team will
step up and take on those
challenges with new and
creative ways of campaigning.

Building Alliances and

Unity
We will be building alliances
and coalitions within the
community, with other unions,
and organisations nationally
and internationally to protect
and improve the Coastal
Trading Act and the rights of
workers.

Liberals must go
That means removing the right
wing antipeople Liberals and

continuing to fight until we

secure strong cabotage laws
that create jobs.

Share the wealth

Australia has the fourth largest
shipping task in the world and
MUA members should be on
ships trading on the coast and
internationally.
Our pledge is to fight
alongside you to protect and
extend Australian seafaring
jobs.

Campaigns must grow

We must continue to build our
fuel security campaign, which
at the moment is protecting the
Coastal Trading Act. Everyone
should get involved in these
mass campaigns aimed at
putting shipping on the radar.

Fight for strong cabotage laws that give

us the right to work on our coast.

Continue to forensically map and
understand the industry w e are
working in like w e have done w ith dry
cargo and fuel products and the use of
Temporary Licences
Campaign using all tools available to us
including, industrial, political,
community alliances and legal
resources to defend and extend the
Australian m erchant fleet and jobs.
Continue to build our delegate
structures through ongoing union
training courses dedicated to seafarers
with the networking of crews across the
Australian m erchant fleet
Use various campaigns to protect the
Coastal Trading Act e.g. Fuel Security,
Targeting companies trading on the
coast without Australian crews
Work with innovative training
organisations like METL that give
people a fair go
Continue to sponsor Hunterlink and
deal w ith all forms of recovery needs
and private counseling
Keep Maritime Super fair for all
members and not just the bosss w ay.
We support current policy that MUA
officials give back any fees they get
from being directors on boards.
Organise to build maximum capacity to
ensure we can best stand up to
employers
Lobbying crossbenchers and M Ps to
prevent the assault on shipping laws.

The United National Team | Paddy Crumlin Will Tracey Warren Smith Ian Bray
We are determined to continue to
strengthen international solidarity
through the ITF and build a strong
Maritime International Federation in
our region.

Organising on the job

The MUA United National Team
intends to network the entire
Australian fleet. We need activism and
unity in achieving our goals.
We will continue to promote EAS as a
preferred option for employers and
promote the discipline required to
make EAS work. That can only happen
with strong delegate structures,
linking fleets, linking ships and crews,
workers talking to workers and
developing the unity to make EAS
work.

Organise to win Thats

the aim of the MUA United
National Team

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because of the Senate fuel security

inquiry has stopped the Coastal
Trading Act being destroyed by the
Conservatives. We have made allies in
parliament who will defend Australian
shipping. We have won support in the
community and we have bought
shipping to the fore in our attempts to
protect and build the Australian tanker
fleet. This type of strategic
campaigning is what the MUA United
National Team offers.

We believe rank and file shipping
committees in branches are the
weapon in the fight for shipping jobs
and the industry. The strategic
targeting of companies using FOCs in
coastal trade can provide a source of
activism in the struggle for seagoing
jobs.

All forms of struggle

We will continue to fight using all our
tactics. We will take to the streets and
halls of power, fight in our workplaces,
build alliances and coalitions in the
community. We will tactically use the
courts and lobby politicians in the
interests of MUA members. That is the
policy of the United National Team.

A political fix for shipping

We need strong laws that protect the
shipping industry. We must remove
the Liberal/National Coalition from
office. This must be done through
struggle and by organising. We need

improvements to the Coastal Trading

Act that protect and extend cabotage
rights in Australia.

We will continue to work with
Anthony Albanese and Labor to secure
sustainable cabotage laws that protect
coastal shipping, support the
rebuilding of Australia's
manufacturing industry and the
generation of coastal shipping services
to protect Australian seafarers and
their right to work in their own
country.

Cabotage laws go hand in hand with
the protection of offshore jobs and the
unions huge struggles around the
migration zone. Our recent victory
against the Federal Government and
Sen. Michaela Cash, where we won our
case in the Federal Court was part of
that broader struggle as is our work
against the illegitimate use of 457s.

We must continue to fight for changes
and improvements to shipping laws
regardless of the government in
power. MUA members will come first
not political machinations.

Internationalism

Our union and industry are based on
the same oceans our comrades and
friends across the world share. We
share the same employers and the
same issues and struggles in our
workplaces as our comarades from
afar.

Seafaring was the first globalised
industry, followed by stevedoring. Our
union dates back to 1872 and has
always had a strong commitment to
internationalism.

We understand that the struggles and
issues of workers are the same across
the world. Solidarity between workers
of the world is vital and the United
National Team will continue that
tradition its work.

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Strategic Campaigning

Fuel Security campaigning has
protected cabotage. The unwillingness
of senate cross-benchers to make
changes to the Coastal Trading Act,