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Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train

Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train

Nov 3, 2020

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 »

NSW Government failing on freight targets

NSW Government failing on freight targets

The NSW Government is sabotaging its own targets to shift freight transport from roads to rail with only 18% of containers sent to Port Botany currently transported by rail, far short of the government’s goal […] Read More »

Momentum: Total Momentum Rail Ops EA Update

Momentum: Total Momentum Rail Ops EA Update

Oct 30, 2020

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

RMTU NZ Activist Newsletter

Oct 30, 2020

Dear members, please find below the latest issue of the RMTU NZ Activist newsletter. Read the full newsletter here. Read More »

PN Intermodal Outsourced Projects Enterprise Agreement Update

PN Intermodal Outsourced Projects Enterprise Agreement Update

Protected Industrial Action Starts At the two member sessions at the Port Kembla Leagues Club on Friday 23rd October 2020, it was clear that members are very angry and unanimously voted to start Protected Industrial […] Read More »

Vale Bernie Willingale

Oct 26, 2020

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 »

Loco Express: Secretary’s Report

Loco Express: Secretary’s Report

Oct 23, 2020

Dear members, After the Federal Budget’s inadequate consideration of the security and rights of working people and the Berejiklian Government’s disrespectful 0.3% wage rise for public sector workers, we are once again faced with unjust […] Read More »

A letter to the Regulator and more legal action

A letter to the Regulator and more legal action

Oct 23, 2020

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

Submission to ONRSR Consultation Regulatory Impact Statement: In-Cab Video and Audio Safety Recordings

Oct 23, 2020

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

Heritage rolling stock should stay at Broadmeadow locomotive depot

Oct 22, 2020

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 »

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