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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 »
PN Outsourced Protected Industrial Ballot Results
This morning we received the Declaration of Results for the PN Outsourced Protection Action Ballot with 93% of eligible members participating and in a sign of Unity all 8 industrial action options being overwhelmingly endorsed […] Read More »
Inland Rail: project continues
Australia’s Inland Rail project, designed to connect regional and national freight networks across Newcastle, Port Kembla and Sydney in NSW and then Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in other states, has started in its first […] Read More »
Analysis: NSW buys 2,000 rail cars from overseas in 10 years
The New South Wales government has ordered almost 2,000 rail and tram carriages from overseas manufacturers in just the last decade according to a new analysis by the Australian Manufacturing Forum. It means that Australian […] Read More »
ACTU Petition: You can’t heal the economy by hurting workers
Dear members, Please see below for a message from the ACTU below. We have a simple demand for Scott Morrison this Sunday: No cuts to workers’ rights. Will you sign this petition and help deliver […] Read More »
NIF Update 37: Training Expression of Interest
Dear member, This week NSW Trains began circulating an expression of interest (EOI) to Gosford Drivers and Central Guards for NIF training. It’s unfortunate that NSW Trains continue to press forward on its dangerous operating […] Read More »
Locomotive Divisional President, Brett Rosser
After many years of servitude to the membership, Locomotive Divisional President, Brett Rosser, has last week announced to the Locomotive Divisional Council his decision to step down from his elected position to focus on his […] Read More »
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