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Letter from Ministers & Email from Sydney Trains
Dear members, Letter from Ministers Last night, we received a letter signed […] Read More »
Location of Events during strike on Thursday morning 0001hrs
Dear members, At 0001hrs on Thursday morning, RTBU members across the network […] Read More »
Industrial Action Calendar and Strike Action Areas
Dear members, Today we have released our industrial action calendar for August. […] Read More »
EA Update – More backflips and planned meeting with the Transport Minister
Dear members, Today we met with management again to go over the […] Read More »
Meeting with the Transport Minister & Management Backflip (again)
Dear members, As you may recall, on Wednesday morning we met with […] Read More »
Successful action last Wednesday and meeting with the Ministers
Dear members, Following from the successful industrial action taken on Wednesday by […] Read More »
Station Staff Action – Industrial Action Update
Dear members, Action Leaving Gates Open From today, Station Staff have commenced […] Read More »
Stop Work Meeting tomorrow in Strike Area 2 & Bargaining Meeting Today
Dear members, Tomorrow RTBU members in Strike Area 2 will walk off […] Read More »
Meeting with Ministers about the NIF Deed
Dear members, Last Thursday, we met with the Transport Minister, David Elliott, […] Read More »
Sydney & NSW Trains given a 7-day deadline on Cleaning Claims
Dear members, The current ban on operating trains that don’t meet minimum […] Read More »
Campaign timeline
2023
Jan 18 The government confirmed the Mariyung fleet of trains have begun testing on tracks in Sydney ahead of their full introduction on services between Sydney and Newcastle, as well as the Blue Mountains and south coast.
2022
November 30 Transport for NSW confirms that the New Intercity Fleet (NIF) will not be in passenger service in 2020, with the trains expected to first run in early 2021.
June 29 Transport Minister David Elliott announced that the government had offered to make changes to the troubled intercity fleet at a cost of $264 million.
May 12 The New South Wales government threatens to terminate its industrial agreement with the state’s powerful rail union after long-running negotiations over a new enterprise agreement broke down on Thursday.
2021
March Three industrial commissioners ruled the government needed the union or workers’ agreement if it wanted to have “customer service guards” rather than regular guards on its new fleet under the rail enterprise agreement.
April The NSW transport minister says the state's new intercity train fleet will be operational within weeks - lol.
New intercity fleet train makes first test journey from Sydney to Katoomba
RTBU calls on NSW Premier to halt testing of $2b intercity train fleet after report flags safety concerns
May 7 NSW Trains and Transport for NSW attempt to sue their own workforce to try and force them to crew the unsafe NIF
Nov Transport blames COVID and travel bans for COVID delay, marking 18 month delay since the promised delivery date of trains
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