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 »
Loco Express: Secretary’s Report
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
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 »
Federal Court Union Win – Ex-IRA Backpay Case
Ex-Independent Rail (IRA) Train Crew had a big win in the Federal Court today, with the court finding that workers who worked at IRA during the period from the expiry of their 2011 EA up […] 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 »
PN Intermodal: Rollover negotiations set to commence
On Thursday 15 October PNI Members will receive the NERR (Notice of Employee Representational Rights) from Management which is the trigger to begin negotiations. EA Rollover Negotiations There are only two components to the EA […] Read More »