Paddy Crumlin
National Secretary
Maritime Union Australia
Level 2, 365 Sussex Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Dear Paddy
The members of the Independent Education Union of Australia share with your union’s mourning of the death of Stephen Piper, 41, husband and father of two.
Our union stands with your members in their grief on the loss of their colleague and with their outrage over the loss of seven other waterside workers killed on the job over the past seven years – three of these deaths having occurred in the past five months.
It is unconscionable that Australian workers can not return home safely to their families from their daily jobs.
Please convey our condolences to the workers’ families and our support to your members
Yours in solidarity
CHRIS WATT
FEDERAL SECRETARY