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PN: Negotiations have finally commenced on a replacement EA
There have been three meetings to date with Pacific National management where the RTBU negotiating team has been strongly pressing your Log of Claims to the company. Negotiations are already proving difficult with little give […] Read More »
Sharp increase in EA terminations
Many of you will remember the 2015 RTBU case against Aurizon’s attempt to terminate the QLD Enterprise Agreement. Ultimately, the Fair Work Commission ruled in Aurizon’s favour, allowing the company to terminate a series of hard-fought […] Read More »
Loco Division Members win redundancy appeal against Pacific National
After a long hard fight the seven locomotive drivers represented by the RTBU NSW Locomotive Division have won an appeal against Pacific National (PN) after being made redundant in July 2015. After losing their jobs […] Read More »
SSR Enterprise Agreement 2017
As members would be aware, Southern Shorthaul Railway Australia (SSR) issued a Notice of Representational Rights (NERR) in May 2016. The purpose of an NERR is to formally commence the bargaining process for a new […] Read More »
Thousands of injured workers to lose compensation benefits this year
In 2012, the O’Farrell government not only slashed compensation benefits for injured workers but also made these changes retrospective. Now, many workers are facing losing their compensation payments from October if they don’t meet the […] Read More »
40 years on: we remember Granville
Today marks 40 years since the Granville Train Disaster – the worst rail disaster in Australia’s history. In 1977 a train derailed near Granville station, followed by the 170-tonne Bold Street Bridge collapsing on carriages […] Read More »
Unconscionable: 12 more redundancies at PN Coal
Pacific National management last week returned from their summer vacation with what would seem to be an increased vigor to continue attacking their workforce. They called aside 12 hardworking Port Waratah employees who were told […] Read More »
Here in “pollie land” someone else should pay
Spotted in the Wagga Daily Advertiser: local man Paul Kerr has summed up the whole politician entitlements debacle in an ‘ode to our pollies’. “I am a federal minister, I’m on the public purse If […] Read More »
Bill would require two-person crews on US freight trains
Attempts by governments and private companies to cut costs by cutting corners on railroad safety are not unique to Australia – they are happening all around the world. In the US there is a push […] Read More »
Tragic afternoon on the tracks
Yesterday was a horrific day with two pedestrians being hit by trains in separate incidents. According to media reports, a woman in Melbourne’s northwest was killed and another pedestrian is in a critical condition after being hit […] Read More »
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