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PN Coal rostering
BUYER BEWARE! DON’T BE SOLD A LEMON! Last week at the Northern ERC Meeting, the company advised that the GM Coal had taken a new roster proposal to the Board for approval. This announcement followed […] Read More »
QUBE EA update
QUBE’s Appeal in the Federal Court On Wednesday, 5 March 2025, the Federal Court heard QUBE’s judicial review application in a full-day session. After extensive legal arguments, the Court has reserved its decision, with a […] Read More »
Aurizon Picnic Day – Dispute
Today, the dispute regarding Aurizon’s failure to pay the stand-alone public holiday payment formembers who were rostered X-Day on the 2024 picnic day has been re-lodged. The response from members have been outstanding with 180 […] Read More »
QUBE Enterprise Agreement update
Enterprise Agreement Negotiations Bargaining has been dysfunctional for some time and hasn’t progressed at all since November. The last opportunity for EA discussions occurred on 20 November 2024, when the Union offered to meet with […] Read More »
QUBE Update- Intractable Bargaining
Last Thursday, 7 November 2024, the final day of hearing in the Intractable Bargaining proceedings before the Fair Work Commission was heard. At the conclusion of the hearing, Deputy President Wright reserved her decision and, […] Read More »
Watco EA update- PABO vote
Protected Industrial Action Your RTBU Legal team made an application on Wednesday to the Fair Work Commission to start process to approve your legal right to take Protected Industrial Action. As such, protected action ballot […] Read More »
WATCO Enterprise Agreement update
In what can only be described as an underhanded tactic, Watco arranged a meeting on 10 October 2024 with some RTBU delegates advising in advance this would not be a bargaining meeting. Even though Watco […] Read More »
QUBE legal update
Underpayment Federal Court Yesterday, we were listed before the Federal Court of Australia for an interlocutory hearing of QUBE’s Stay Application which was filed on 9 September 2024. While QUBE was pressing that this matter […] Read More »
Watco EA Update
Last Tuesday we had the 7th bargaining meeting with Watco Management. This meeting was very disappointing to say the least and wasn’t very productive with many outstanding items still not resolved. We started with Public […] Read More »
QUBE EA gets the big thumbs down
As usual, the RTBU had to request the EA vote results from QUBE, and to our surprise, they provided the results about 40 minutes after the ballot closed on 11 September at 1800hrs. This marks […] Read More »
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