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Industrial Relations Minister to meet with DP World logistics representatives
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1/18/2024
Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke is meeting with DP World representatives today -- over the ongoing dispute causing serious delays at port terminals across the country.
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This dispute is mainly over pay. So the Maritime Union of Australia is asking for a pay rise
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for 1500 of its workers. The company though says if you take in account back pay, that
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pay rise they're asking for is actually 27% over two years, which is too high. So the
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Maritime Union of Australia members have been taking protected industrial action. They've
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reduced that action to two hour stoppages now. But as you can imagine, this is affecting
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a lot of the containers coming into ports into Australia. And this is having, you know,
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a big impact on businesses across the country. It's impacting both importers and exporters
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of all sorts of goods, but including fresh produce. So you can imagine if you're importing,
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you know, fresh fruit and vegetables that you're selling to events, say, such as Chinese
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New Year, they might not get to them in time now. It also means they perish and the business
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has to wear that cost. It's also affecting a lot of exporters who are exporting products
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such as wine, which is, you know, obviously a time of year when they're exporting this
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product in addition to meat. So it's really having a major impact and they are calling,
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they're among a number of voices that are calling on Federal Minister Tony Burke to
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intervene. I've talked about the, you know, importers being affected. Now that could potentially
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see if this drags on, that could potentially see the prices that consumers pay at the shops
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increase. And that obviously has a big inflation impact. And this is a time where we really
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want the Reserve Bank's been working very hard to try and keep inflation under control.
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So it's really risky if this does push up inflation, because rather than seeing rate
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cuts this year, what you might then see is more rate rises.
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