Union backdown means shipping reprieve

By Mal Gill and Bree Swift
October 22 2021 - 7:00pm
The sign above these header fronts on trucks stopped at the border says "Welcome to Western Australia" and they will be welcome for the WA farmers who are waiting on them after ships bringing them to Fremantle Port were diverted to Melbourne and Adelaide because of industrial action at the port.
The sign above these header fronts on trucks stopped at the border says "Welcome to Western Australia" and they will be welcome for the WA farmers who are waiting on them after ships bringing them to Fremantle Port were diverted to Melbourne and Adelaide because of industrial action at the port.

A DECISION by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) to suspend strike action came just in time to prevent two more ships carrying agricultural equipment from being diverted from Fremantle Port.

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