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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 »
Australia’s First “Railway”
Did you know that Australia’s first reputed railway was powered by convicts? That’s right, in 1836 at the Tasmanian penal colony of Port Arthur, Captain Charles Booth had convict labour construct an 8-kilometre section of […] Read More »
PN Intermodal Outsourced Projects Enterprise Agreement Update
The RTBU has taken further industrial action this week with three 24-hour work stoppages on 15, 16 and 17 December 2020. As you are aware, the RTBU must comply with Federal Court orders and stop […] Read More »
RMTU NZ Transport Worker Magazine – Issue 4, December 2020
Dear members, Please find below the latest issue of the RMTU NZ Transport Worker Magazine. Read the full magazine here. Read More »
Footplate: NIF Update – Post Action Discussions
Following the scheduled “Mission Readiness” exercise on the NIF train and the safety events that followed, the RTBU has been meeting with NSW Trains and a Transport for NSW representative to try and resolve the […] Read More »
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