Update
RMTU NZ The Activist – Issue 1, 9 February 2021
Dear members, Please find below the latest issue of the RMTU NZ The Activist. Read the full magazine here. Read More »
Critical Incident Leave Dispute
Members are advised that a Dispute has been lodged with NSW Trains owing to their refusal to offer a member Critical Incident Leave (CIL) following an incident where the members train he was operating struck […] Read More »
Newsflash: PN Outsourced EA Update – It’s Time to Vote
After a long drawn out protected industrial action campaign, it is now time for you to vote on the Pacific National Outsourced Projects Enterprise Agreement 2021. Your access period started on 3 February 2021 and […] Read More »
Footplate – Public Health Order Exemption: Mandatory Face Coverings
Members are advised of a recent exemption to the mandatory wearing of face masks on public transport issued by NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard MP. The order states a person is exempt from wearing […] Read More »
Newsflash: Pacific National Fails on Risk Assessment
22 January 2021 Yesterday, the RTBU Locomotive Division received a copy of the latest Risk Assessment, not from Pacific National, but from concerned members. Each item in the Risk Assessment raises safety concerns as each […] Read More »
Newsflash: PN Bulk Moss Vale Depot
19 January 2021 A message for All Train Crew working into the Bowral Berrima Works Site. Since Consultation started on the introduction of new duties for Train Crew at the site, Pacific National has not […] Read More »
Campaign Launch: KEEP FREIGHT ON AUSSIE TRAINS
The RTBU has launched Keep Freight on Aussie Trains, an online campaign pressuring the Federal Government to abandon its coastal shipping reforms. A Federal Transport Department proposal to make it easier foreign-flagged ships to compete […] Read More »
RailTrain: Hunter Ports Services Enterprise Agreement.
The Rail, Tram & Bus Union, Locomotive Division NSW Branch have been in negotiations with Railtrain representatives since May 2019 for a new Enterprise Agreement covering 12 employees in a single classification. Negotiations have been […] Read More »
Footplate – Covid-19 Public Health Order Mandatory Face Coverings
The RTBU Locomotive and Operations Division meet with Sydney Trains Officials via Teams regarding the current Wearing of Masks Public Health Order 2021 as issued late on the 2/1/21. It has been agreed with Sydney […] Read More »
Footplate – COVID-19 Public Health Order Mandatory Face Coverings – Update 2
To Sydney/NSW Trains Members, Further to Footplate No 1.21 issued last week regarding Public Health Order Mandatory Face Coverings and following a report back meeting this afternoon between the RTBU and Sydney Trains/NSW Train Link […] Read More »