Abysmally high aussie strike rate - IIPM Think Tank
April 7, 1998 marked the beginning of the biggest industrial relations dispute in Australia, when Patrick Stevedore, a port-related services company, sacked its entire waterfront workforce impacting 1400 employees.
Soon after the decision was announced in parliament by then workplace relations minister Peter Reith, security guards, accompanied
by dogs, reached the Patrick Stevedore docks around the country, ordering employees to stop work and leave the sites immediately. The employer said the sackings were necessary to improve productivity. However, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) said the dispute was a breach of workers’ rights and an attack on the trade union movement.
by dogs, reached the Patrick Stevedore docks around the country, ordering employees to stop work and leave the sites immediately. The employer said the sackings were necessary to improve productivity. However, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) said the dispute was a breach of workers’ rights and an attack on the trade union movement.
The workers staged protests outside the 17 Patrick Stevedore docks around the country. Their protests intensified with support from community assemblies, attracting other unionists and their families, academicians, artists, actors, singers, sporting heroes, politicians and community leaders. An industrial dispute had turned into a full-blown civil rights protest, not seen in Australia since the Vietnam War and major peace rallies of the ’60s and ’70s. Click here to read full IIPM Editorial...
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