QUBE
NSW Government failing on freight targets
The NSW Government is sabotaging its own targets to shift freight transport from roads to rail with only 18% of containers sent to Port Botany currently transported by rail, far short of the government’s goal […] Read More »
Federal Court Union Win – Ex-IRA Backpay Case
Ex-Independent Rail (IRA) Train Crew had a big win in the Federal Court today, with the court finding that workers who worked at IRA during the period from the expiry of their 2011 EA up […] Read More »
QUBE Enterprise Agreement Update
As members would be aware, the successor QUBE 2020 Enterprise Agreement was recently endorsed by the majority of the employees/members; the vote being 57 YES to 44 NO. The Enterprise Agreement includes several changes including […] Read More »
QUBE Enterprise Agreement Update
Late last week, QUBE finally responded to our letter which addresses concerns that QUBE was not bargaining in good faith. Within this letter, QUBE stated that they still wished to continue with negotiations, however QUBE […] Read More »
QUBE Enterprise Agreement Update
We know many of you are concerned following QUBE’s outrageous letter cancelling any enterprise agreement negotiations due to the COVID-19 virus. Today, our internal Locomotive Divisional Legal Officer sent QUBE a letter raising our concerns […] Read More »
QUBE Enterprise Agreement Update
Negotiations for a new enterprise agreement have been ongoing since 2018. QUBE has sent out 2 approved agreement’s, which were not endorsed by the NSW RTBU Locomotive Division EA Team, and, as such, resulted in […] Read More »
QUBE Enterprise Agreement gets voted down – again!
Members have had their say by voting down QUBE’s proposed Enterprise Agreement AGAIN. The vote went down by 55 to 53 with 7 members/employees not voting. Soon after notification of the vote, the NSW Locomotive […] Read More »
QUBE EA Update
QUBE has now sent out their proposed Enterprise Agreement for Members/Employees to vote on. This proposed EA has not been endorsed by your RTBU NSW Locomotive Division EA Negotiating Team. There are still 3 major […] Read More »
QUBE Enterprise Agreement Update
In a last-ditch effort to reach an in-principle agreement, your RTBU Locomotive Division Delegate EA bargaining team met with QUBE Management yesterday at Cooks River. This was the last arranged meeting regarding the negotiating of […] Read More »
QUBE Enterprise Agreement Update
After an overwhelming rejection of the company’s proposed Enterprise Agreement (EA) of 101 to 8 in early November 2019, your EA negotiating team met with QUBE management yesterday in an effort to get the improved […] Read More »