News / Maritime Union of Australia voices support for US dockworkers 'at war'

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National secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Paddy Crumlin, who is also international president of the International Transport Workers Federation, has broadcast his support for the International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) in its “war” against the US Maritime Alliance (USMX).

In a letter to ILA president Harold Daggett yesterday, Mr Crumlin said: “The automation agenda being pushed by USMX is a brazen union-busting exercise which will fatten corporate profits while destroying the livelihoods of tens of thousands of maritime workers ...