Update
Invitation: PN HSR Meeting
FOR THE ATTENTION OF ALL PACIFIC NATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES You are invited to the final RTBU PN HSR Zoom for the year. Even if you haven’t attended before, jump on the Zoom and […] Read More »
Treasurer says NSW public sector wage cuts “generous”
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet defended the government’s decision to cap wage increases for the public sector at 1.5% over the coming years, calling it a “generous policy”. This comes after a damaging temporary wage cut […] Read More »
Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
The driver of an empty train has made a lucky escape after thanks to a fortuitously placed art installation. A metro train in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, crashed through a barrier at the end of the tracks […] Read More »
Momentum: Total Momentum Rail Ops EA Update
Friday 30 October 2020 Negotiations between the RTBU and Momentum continue to be difficult. Things are also moving at glacial speed, with meetings being held every fortnight for a maximum of two hours (sometimes less […] Read More »
RMTU NZ Activist Newsletter
Dear members, please find below the latest issue of the RMTU NZ Activist newsletter. Read the full newsletter here. Read More »
Vale Bernie Willingale
Getting to the Footplate Bernie Willingale was born in 1933, in the depths of the Depression, the son of a railway man, who was a Fitter’s Mate at Enfield all his working life. Bernie started […] Read More »
A letter to the Regulator and more legal action
The RTBU has continuously and repeatedly raised your safety concerns with everyone possible. In August, on our Depot Tour, members asked us a lot about the rail regulator and if they would stop an unsafe […] Read More »
Submission to ONRSR Consultation Regulatory Impact Statement: In-Cab Video and Audio Safety Recordings
In an ominous sign to all members late last month, ONRSR announced an In-cab audio and video safety recordings Consultation Regulatory Impact Statement, claiming: It is timely to consider the value of in-cab video and audio […] Read More »
Heritage rolling stock should stay at Broadmeadow locomotive depot
A motion is to be tabled next week as Newcastle Labor councillors are proposing the council write to the NSW Transport Minister expressing its formal opposition to the removal of heritage-listed rolling stock from the […] Read More »
RMT UK Newsletter
Dear members, please find below the latest copy of the RMT UK newsletter: RMT welcomes Welsh Government decision to take Transport for Wales rail services into public ownership Wales’s largest rail union RMT today welcomed […] Read More »