{"id":9653,"date":"2016-01-24T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/01\/24\/australian-port-union-leaders-must-get-real\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T09:27:00","slug":"australian-port-union-leaders-must-get-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/australian-port-union-leaders-must-get-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian port union leaders must get real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial strife has seen the Maritime Union of Australia escalate action at Patrick Container Terminals with stoppages and overtime and shift extension bans, after failure to reach agreement on a new enterprise agreement.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, towage strikes have been called by members of the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers on Svitzer Australia tugs, again over enterprise agreement terms.<\/p>\n<p>The ALC has now stepped in to say the wave of strike action threatens the efficiency of Australia\u2019s supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day the MUA\u2019s unwarranted action at Patrick\u2019s Container Terminals continues, Australia suffers,\u201d said ALC chief executive Michael Kilgariff. \u201cThe MUA\u2019s unrealistic claims are damaging the national economy to the tune of at least A$40m a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kilgariff says the flow-on effects from this industrial action will impact on every sector reliant on an efficient port sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutting at risk port supply chain efficiency is highly irresponsible when the claims underpinning them are extreme and would not pass your everyday \u2018pub test\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worsening industrial situation at Australia\u2019s ports has prompted the Australian Logistics Council (ALC) to call on maritime union leaders to \u201cget real\u201d and abandon their \u201cexcessive and unsustainable wage and condition claims\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}