Maritime Union Wins a Small Victory as Foreign Crews to Get Vaccinations
Campaign Highlighting Covid Risk Begins to Come to Fruition
AUSTRALIA – In an Australian-first, NSW Health will provide Covid-19 vaccinations to a small number of foreign seafarers on board vessels that transport gas between Australian ports in an effort to reduce the risk of the virus entering the community. The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) sees this initiative as a small win having campaigned relentlessly for increased Covid-19 measures, but finds that more needs to be done to protect seafarers in the ongoing pandemic.
The MUA has welcomed the initiative between NSW Health and NSW Ports, which will cover vessels that regularly visit the Port Botany Bulk Liquids Berth, but said the model must be rolled out nationally to reduce the risk of Covid transmission to waterfront workers. MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin said there was an urgent need for a nationally-consistent approach to close the gaping
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Jackie Robinson had been out of the major leagues for five years by the time the New Jersey State Police hired its first Black trooper.
Six decades later, the department hails that man, Paul McLemore, as a true breaker of barriers. A black-and-white portrait of his October 1961 swearing-in hangs in the agency s West Trenton museum, and troopers speak of him with the same reverential tones a young ballplayer might use when discussing the Brooklyn Dodger who broke baseball’s color boundary.
Less spoken about until recently was the fierce racism McLemore met not only from the public, but from his own comrades-in-arms. And how the institutional racism that infused law enforcement at the time eventually pushed him out of the profession altogether.
New Jersey state troopers salute before an NFL football game. AP Photo/Adam HungerThe New Jersey State Police, founded 100 years ago, was created to counter the influence of the state’s rising populations of African Americans and immigrants, whom white residents feared. My research into the agency’s culture found that the agency emerged as the result of a seven-year campaign by the state’s Chamber of Commerce to replace rural police and county sheriffs with a statewide professional force. A key element of the chamber’s effort was a 225-page report, issued in 1917, written by Paul Garrett, a well-known businessman, whose reputation helped boost the idea for a state police agency. Garrett’s writing focused on what he called the “foreign problem” in 13 of the state’s 21 counties, which was how he described crimes allegedly committed by African American and foreign-born residents in these communities. The report contained stark racial
Source: The Conversation â USA â By W. Carsten Andresen, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Edwardâs University
The New Jersey State Police, founded 100 years ago, was created to counter the influence of the stateâs rising populations of African Americans and immigrants, whom white residents feared.
My research into the agencyâs culture found that the agency emerged as the result of a seven-year campaign by the stateâs Chamber of Commerce to replace rural police and county sheriffs with a statewide professional force.
A key element of the chamberâs effort was a 225-page report, issued in 1917, written by Paul Garrett, a well-known businessman, whose reputation helped boost the idea for a state police agency.
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