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AURIZON COAL ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT UPDATE
RTBU representatives met with Aurizon Coal management on Monday 30th October 2017 to discuss logistics for the upcoming Enterprise Agreement negotiations. Discussions included where and when the negotiations will be held and who will be […] Read More »
PN NSW BULK RAIL Update: Pay and Protected Action
A short update on where the issues with pay deductions for participation the two 48 hour stoppages have progressed to. Your RTBU team wrote to the company on Tuesday and gave them till COB today […] Read More »
PN NSW Coal and Bulk EA Negotiations- A Way Forward
Your RTBU Negotiating Team met with the Company this week on Wednesday and Thursday to continue negotiations in the agreed format of: – Group A: Focusing on the outstanding matters to be dealt with in […] Read More »
PN NSW Bulk Rail EA – Pay and Protected Action
Members from around the state are reporting that Pacific National has deducted payments for participating in the two 48 hour stoppages that are higher than the hours they were rostered to work or would have […] Read More »
ACTU calls for ‘living wage’ on anniversary of Harvester decision
The ACTU is calling for the minimum wage to be raised to the level of a living wage, on which a low-paid worker could support themselves and their family. ACTU Secretary, Sally McManus will tonight […] Read More »
PN support from Taiwan
The Taiwan Railway Labor Union has sent a message of solidarity to Pacific National members currently engaged in an in a dispute with the company. The letter outlines the union’s support for the striking workers. […] Read More »
Newcastle Herald: Rail drivers keep fighting
The Newcastle Herald, Ian Kirkwood WITH a regular backdrop of supportive motorists’ horns, more than 100 striking Pacific National freight train drivers vowed on Monday to keep up industrial action in pursuit of a new […] Read More »
United: PN members take part in 48 hour stoppage
Pacific National Coal and Bulk members have taken part in peaceful assemblies across the state today as part of a 48 hour stoppage. The stoppage has come about as a result of the company’s refusal […] Read More »
Messages of solidarity flow in from overseas
Messages of solidarity from all across the world are flowing in for Pacific National members currently taking action to secure a fair enterprise agreement. The latest messages have come from the Japan Confederation of Railway […] Read More »
Support for PN workers from UK comrades
The union for train drivers in the UK – ASLEF – has written to the Loco Division to express its solidarity with Pacific National workers during the current action against the company. Mick Whelan, General […] Read More »



