Workers blockade Vic pier over sackings

ABOUT 100 dock workers and supporters are blockading the Spirit of Tasmania in Melbourne to protest against staff sackings.

The protesters are stopping freight trucks loading cargo onto the Spirit of Tasmania, which is due to depart Melbourne's Station Pier at 7.30pm (AEST) on Friday.

David Schleibs of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) said the community members wanted stevedore company QUBE which employed the workers to negotiate their return to work.

"The company has terminated them and they believe it's been unfair," Mr Schleibs said.

He said six men may have an unfair dismissal case.

The MUA believes the workers were sacked because they had raised safety concerns but the company said they had refused to carry out duties for which they had been trained, and had previously performed.

A QUBE spokesman said only one worker had been dismissed and the action taken by the union was illegal.

QUBE will take the MUA to court over the protest, the spokesman said.

The rally is not expected to delay the ship's departure.

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