Padraig 'Paddy' Crumlin | |
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 MUA National Secretary and ITF President Paddy Crumlin | |
| National Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia | |
| In office 2000–Present | |
| President of the International Transport Workers' Federation | |
| Assumed office August 2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Riverwood, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Seafarer |
Padraig "Paddy" Crumlin is an Australian trade unionist. In addition to his leadership of the Maritime Union of Australia since 2000, he has been the President of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) since 2010 and the International President of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union since that union was established in 2018.[1][2]
Crumlin is a long-term advocate and proponent of Workers Capital; the responsible investment of workers' superannuation and pension funds and has held leadership positions with the Maritime Super fund and is the Co-Chair of the Committee on Workers Capital, a global effort to coordinate investment policies that meet Environmental, Social and Governance targets to ensure workers' retirement funds are invested ethically and responsibly.
Crumlin serves a Director of the ACTU's Centre for Workers' Capital in Australia and chairs a number of charitable and not-for-profit organisations including the Tas Bull Seafarers Foundation, Hunterlink and the ITF Seafarers Trust, as well as representing workers at the International Labor Organisation on maritime related labour governance matters.
Crumlin is also active in industry development and training, chairing Maritime Employee Training Limited and having served as a Director of Sydney Ports Corporation.
Noting his long-term support and interest in the framework of rights and support for people living with a disability and those injured at work, in 2008 Bill Shorten appointed Crumlin to the National Disability and Carer Council (NDACC), an advisory body that was consulted on during the planning and establishment of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Crumlin went to sea in 1978. He has been a full-time union official since 1987 including Branch Secretary and Assistant National Secretary of the Seamen's Union of Australia and after amalgamation with the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia in 1993, became the Deputy National Secretary and subsequently the National Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia.[3] Since the Maritime Union's amalgamation in 2018 with the CFMEU, Crumlin has continued to serve as the division's National Secretary alongside his responsibilities as the International President of the broader CFMMEU.
Crumlin has wide involvement in the port authority, towage, shipping, hydrocarbon, diving, cruise ship and stevedoring industries in Australia and internationally.
Crumlin was elected President of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) in August 2010[4] – a global union federation of 677 trade unions representing 19.7 million workers in 149 countries in the seafaring, port, road, rail and aviation sectors. In August 2006, he was elected as Chair of the Dockers Section[5] of the ITF and is an Executive Member of the ITF. He has represented international seafarers at the International Labor Organisation on maritime conventions for over 15 years in a senior capacity Member of the Executive Board of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).