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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Svitzer org - Caught on Camera

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Newcastle Herald

Newcastle harbour simulator to train next generation of tug boat masters

Construction has begun on a new tug boat simulator.

Newcastle Herald

World-first tugboats bound for Newcastle, Svitzer announces

They are due to enter service in 2025.

Newcastle Herald

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Russian court seizes four Danish-owned tugboats in Sakhalin

A Russian court on the Pacific island of Sakhalin has ordered the seizure of four tugboats belonging to Denmark's Svitzer

Reuters

Largest vessel ever welcomed to the Humber as near 20-year record sunk

333-metre Maran Lupus calls at Immingham Oil Terminal to deliver crude for refining

Birmingham Post

Uncertainty for Esperance's only female tug master as multinational competition threatens to sink business

A small-scale tugboat operator in WA's south-west is struggling to stay afloat as multinational businesses encroach on Australian ports.

ABC News

Christmas may be safe, but three-year port dispute shows the IR system is full of holes

Australia’s industrial relations umpire has delayed industrial action that would have crippled Australia’s ports in the lead-up to Christmas.

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The MUA is proud of its strength and says Svitzer distorts the picture when it comes to 'interference' in management

Union power at heart of national tug fight

Newcastle Herald

Fair Work Commission suspends Svitzer industrial action for six months

Svitzer action suspended for six months

Newcastle Herald

All Svitzer industrial action off for six months, orders Fair Work Commission | UPDATED

Maritime union praises Fair Work Commission Svitzer decision as 'commonsense' | UPDATED

Newcastle Herald

Industrial umpire scraps Svitzer lockout

The Fair Work Commission has stepped in to ensure a port lockout by tugboat operator Svitzer cannot go ahead for six months, as a pay dispute continues.

AAP

Retired Newcastle tug hands discuss the national Svitzer dispute and 'the good old days'

Retired Svitzer tug crew pick a bone with their old employer

Newcastle Herald

Svitzer's war with workforce is an act of economic sabotage

The workers' crime? To ask for a wage increase that keeps pace with the cost of living and a fair share of the record profits being extracted by Svitzer and its multinational parent company

Newcastle Herald

Unions claim victory as Svitzer lockdown stopped by Fair Work Commission

High drama as Fair Work Commission stops Svitzer tug lockout

Newcastle Herald

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ABC News

Fair Work Commission orders Svitzer to scrap staff lockout

Danish-owned tugboat company Svitzer has been ordered to abandon its industrial action planned for tomorrow after the Fair Work Commission found it would cause significant economic damage.

Newcastle Herald

Svitzer docks workers for strike that never happened, promises to make up pay

Union blast Svitzer after tug workers docked for cancelled strike

Newcastle Herald

Tug of woe: strike off but lockout still looming as Svitzer stands ground

Svitzer lockout holds national economy to ransom says ACTU

ABC News

Minister accuses tugboat company of 'economic vandalism' over planned lockout of workers

Svitzer Australia plans to indefinitely lock out workers from 17 ports across Australia on Friday following three years of stalled negotiations with the unions.

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The Guardian - AU

‘Economic vandalism’: Labor accuses tugboat operator of ‘blackmail’ over planned lockout of workers

Minister Tony Burke welcomed Fair Work Commission’s decision to take Svitzer case on given the ‘extraordinary impact on the economy’

Newcastle Herald

All parties to Svitzer tug dispute need to think hard after Fair Work Commission's rare intervention

Tug battle and 'supply chain sabotage'Tug battle and 'supply chain sabotage'

AAP

Work umpire to consider Svitzer action

The full bench of the Fair Work Commission will examine tugboat operator Svitzer's decision to lock out employees after three years of pay talks.

ABC News

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Newcastle Herald

Svitzer's threatened national shutdown of 17 ports returns to Fair Work Commission noon Wednesday

Fair Work Commission intervenes in Svitzer tug-of-war

The Guardian - AU

Tony Burke asks tugboat operator to delay lockout amid threat to Christmas supply chains

Workplace relations minister says he is devastated at breakdown in three years of pay negotiations, but Labor’s industrial relations bill offers a solution

ABC News

Battle between maritime unions and tug boat giant Svitzer escalates as hundreds of employees locked out indefinitely

Danish tug boat giant Svitzer says it will lock out hundreds of employees from 17 ports across the country.

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