EASTER SHOULD BE ABOUT DELIVERING CHOCOLATE – NOT MASSIVE CUTS TO WORKERS’ RIGHTS!!
All affected PN employees received an invite yesterday from their President, so tomorrow, Easter Saturday, take up the invitation, get on the phone and tell PN that your EA is not up for grabs – […] Read More »
Berejiklian Govt under pressure over dodgy Sydenham-Bankstown Line Conversion
A parliamentary inquiry into the NSW Government’s metro rail line project has found what many of us already knew – that the case and rationale for converting the Bankstown line has “not been adequately made […] Read More »
Sydney Trains COVID-19 – Interim Measures Training and Assessing
The Locomotive Division wishes to advise Members of changes to Training and Assessing (Initial Employment Training and Standards Officer Assessments) in response to issues arising from implementation of COVID-19 Social Distancing recommendations. The following COVID-19 […] Read More »
IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR ALL PN MEMBERS
RTBU National Secretary Mark Diamond today wrote to Pacific National CEO Dean Dalla Valle to express his strong concerns about the company’s attempt to ram through changes to your Enterprise Agreements. A copy of Mark’s […] Read More »
Jobkeeper: A quick guide to changes to the Fair Work Act
The Federal Parliament has passed changes to the Fair Work Act as part of the Government’s JobKeeper wage subsidy program. The changes only apply until 28 September 2020. The information outlined below is relevant for […] Read More »
URGENT Pacific National News
Yesterday evening, the RTBU became aware that Pacific National’s Coal and Freight businesses were planning to announce at around 11am today, Thursday, 9th April 2020 that it would be seeking to change the working/rostering conditions […] Read More »
NSW Trains and COVID 19
Members will be aware of the current situation with COVID 19 as they continue to perform their duties as essential service employees and the results of the same within their work environments. Members may also […] Read More »
Pacific National: Coronavirus employee update
Firstly, a massive thank you to all PN RTBU Members. What you are doing at the moment is above and beyond. Keeping the trains loaded, maintained and moving so that Australians have access to vital […] Read More »
PN Coal advise of contract loss and redeployment options
In these troubled times it is unfortunate that last week Pacific National Coal advised employees at Inner Harbour Depot that their depot numbers would need to be reduced due to the loss of one of […] Read More »
Pacific National Intermodal Outsourced Projects Enterprise Agreement Update
Negotiations continued last Wednesday with the NSW RTBU Locomotive Division, your EA Delegates and Pacific National for the replacement Enterprise Agreement. Pacific National finally put their Log of Claims on the table. At no stage […] Read More »



