Hutchison members have overwhelmingly backed the deal and voted yes at stop-work meetings in Brisbane on 21 August and Sydney on 22 August. "This is a victory for every worker at Hutchison and across the whole waterfront as it will expose the productivity myth of automation. Stevedoring companies who want to use job-destroying, ineffective, slow and unsafe automation experiments will end up behind on contracts, behind on productivity and will not have a positive relationship with their workforce that can help lift productivity or build market share," Smith said.