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DEFEND OUR LIVING STANDARDS: No more trade-offs. Large pay rises and wage indexation to beat inflation. DEFEND OUR JOBS: End casualisation – permanent jobs for all. Enshrine seniority and improve rosters. A shorter work week with no loss in pay. DEFEND OUR RIGHTS: Full right to stop work and strike. Militant defense of picket lines. Common expiry dates for all maritime agreements. Nation-wide industry action to win. DEFEND OUR UNION: Strike action to defeat all anti-union laws. Government, court and police hands of our union. BUILD SOLIDARITY: Oppose all strikebreaking. Honour all picket lines. No handling of scab cargo. Organise the unorganised and the unemployed. FIGHT RACIAL & SEXUAL OPPRESSION: Discrimination and exploitation of migrants, women etc. allows bosses to pit worker against worker. UNION CONTROL OF OUR JOBS: For industry employment and union hiring halls. Full job equalisation, job rotation and skills training for all. RANK & FILE CONTROL OF THE UNION: Annual election of all officials and delegates with the right to recall them. Annual decision-making conferences. Regular mass meetings and strike committees to control all disputes. PEACE IS UNION BUSINESS: Black bans and strikes to demand US / Australian troops out of the Middle East and East Timor. Hands off Cuba, Venezuela, Iran. INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY: Support strikes overseas with solidarity action. Full citizenship rights for refugees. Fight exploitation and FOC shipping with a union aid program to build militant unions in the Third World. WORKERS’ CONTROL OF INDUSTRY: End business secrecy – open the company books to union inspection. Nationalise the maritime industry under workers’ control. NO RELIANCE ON THE LABOR PARTY: No support to Labor’s privatisation, wage cuts and union busting. Oust the trade union bureaucracy. For a workers party that fights for a workers government to seize major industry. For a planned economy to end poverty, racism & war. |
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Vigilance Bulletin
