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The Australian: Glencore, Anglo American slam Aurizon’s threat to cut capacity
The nation’s biggest coalminer, Glencore, says railway owner Aurizon’s threat to cut 20 million tonnes of Queensland coking coal export capacity is already starting to limit shipments of Australia’s second-biggest export and questioned whether Aurizon […] Read More »
AFR: QCA presses Aurizon to explain ‘substantial impacts’ of maintenance changes
The Queensland Competition Authority is playing hardball with Aurizon over a contentious regulatory decision, rejecting a request from the rail group to extend a deadline to explain controversial changes to maintenance practices. Due to copyright […] Read More »
Business News: Genesee & Wyoming Appoints Two New Directors to Board; Announces Upcoming Board Changes
“April 03, 2018 07:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time DARIEN, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W)(NYSE:GWR) announced today the appointment of Bruce J. Carter and Cynthia L. Hostetler to its Board of Directors (the “G&W Board”). […] Read More »
Railtrain Newsflash: Railtrain Management has FINALLY got back to the RTBU regarding your Enterprise Agreement.
After the Consultation Meeting on the 7th of February 2018 Railtrain informed your RTBU Negotiating Team that no decisions could be made around the EA until the Railtrain Executive had met in late February/early March. […] Read More »
RMTU – The Activist NZ Newsletter
Please click here to download the New Zealand Rail & Maritime Transport Union newsletter, The Activist. Read More »
Aurizon Intermodal finishes operations
The last train of Aurizon Intermodal has now finally finished its operations. The last train worked was the 1451 from Enfield to Carrington and return 4152 to Enfield on the 31st March 2018. The train […] Read More »
Sydney and NSW Trains EA’s
Download the PDF of this footplate here. Sydney and NSW Trains EA’s As members are aware, the results of the Sydney and NSW Trains Enterprise Agreement were as follows: What this means is […] Read More »
A message from Sally McManus
Late Monday afternoon Michaelia Cash and Craig Laundy thought they were about to get their anti-worker Bill, the so-called “Ensuring Integrity” Bill, through the Senate. Remember, this is the Bill that if passed would give […] Read More »
Sydney & NSW Trains: The ballot results are in
The results of the ballot for Sydney Trains and NSW Trains are in. At Sydney Trains, 6525 employees voted on the new Agreement (9707 ballot papers were issued) and almost 52.8% voted yes. At NSW […] Read More »
Newsflash: DP Allowance Aurizon Members
The RTBU and Aurizon met today at Fair Work Australia in Newcastle in an attempt to resolve the dispute regarding the Non-Payment of the Distributed Power Allowance as per clause 54 of the Aurizon NSW […] Read More »