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Failure to Protect Frontline Workers – Lifting of MOS Ban
Dear members, Over the past 2 weeks, we have seen some of […] Read More »
Bargaining Update – Correcting Government Mistruths
Dear members, Over the past week and half, there has been a […] Read More »
Events of today, the NSW Government is out of control
Dear members, Today the NSW government completely lost the plot. Ministers of […] Read More »
Government escalates its rhetoric, threatens to terminate enterprise agreement
Dear members, This morning we were meant to be bargaining with Sydney […] Read More »
Government folds on its threat and our case begins
Dear members, Government’s Termination Threat Yesterday the Government threatened that if we […] Read More »
Media Nonsense
Dear Members, Media Nonsense We woke up this morning to an article […] Read More »
Station Staff – Industrial Action commencing tomorrow
From tomorrow, two actions are restarting from 0001hrs that affect station staff: […] Read More »
Sydney Trains exploits a technicality on Stations training ban
Dear members, There has been some confusion around part of the Stations […] Read More »
NSW Government pulls a dirty legal trick
Dear Members, Last Thursday, the Minister for Transport David Elliott made direct […] Read More »
Why has the Opal Action been postponed and what are we doing to be able to take it again? (Member explainer)
Dear Members, We understand that many members were looking forward to the […] 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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