Svitzer Australia, a subsidiary of Danish shipping conglomerate A.P. Moller Maersk, has announced an agreement in principle with Australia’s maritime unions on a new labor contract for Australian tugboat crews..
Unions have welcomed a strong rebuke of Maersk-owned Svitzer Australia by the Fair Work Commission after the court blocked the company’s planned lockout of its entire Australian workforce which was due to begin this Friday. The world’s biggest shipper is being urged to return to the negotiating table to agree a new pay deal for its tug workforce.
Australia’s Fair Work Commission has ruled that Svitzer Australia, a subsidiary of Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, must scrap its plans for a lockout of its harbor tug workers that.
The Nautilus Federation – a group of 21 trade unions representing maritime professionals around the world – is assisting two affiliated Australian trade unions, after Svitzer threatened to terminate long-standing agreements that protect the pay and terms & conditions of their members. Since 2019 the Australian Maritime Officers’ Union (AMOU) and the Australian Institute of .
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