OPINION: Waterfront employers should be allowed to fight back against strikes and go-slow tactics designed to wear them down.
tug boat operator Svitzer from taking one of the few options it had, short of capitulation, to bring protracted negotiations with three waterfront unions to a head.
Important context was provided to the dispute this week in a Productivity Commission report that described the harm done to waterfront operators – and by extension Australian consumers – by legal and illegal union industrial action. Logistics company DP World told the commission its entire operations were hit by a 24-hour strike over whether a union official should be invited to a regular meeting of local employee representatives.
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