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Bargaining update and new protected action ballot ordered
Dear Members, Over the past 2 weeks, your EA delegates have been […] Read More »
New Protected Action Ballot Vote Opens Wednesday 5th October
Dear Members, As members may have heard, last week we applied for […] Read More »
End of conciliation before the Fair Work Commission
Dear Members, Over the past three weeks, your EA delegates have been […] Read More »
Reminder about Station Staff Training & Assessments Industrial Action
Dear Members, An indefinite ban on non-safeworking competency assurance assessments for Station […] Read More »
Protected Action Ballot: Voting is now OPEN
Dear Members, Voting in the latest Protected Action Ballot is now OPEN. […] Read More »
Good faith bargaining case update
Dear Members, Today our case for good faith bargaining orders continued in […] Read More »
PAB Results: Members overwhelmingly vote YES to deactivating Opal machines
Dear Members, Congratulations to all who voted in the Protected Action Ballot. […] Read More »
Desperate act by Senior Management
Dear Members, Last night, Sydney and NSW Trains sent Station Staff a […] Read More »
Opal Gates Deactivation Action Notified
Dear Members, Tonight, we notified Sydney Trains and NSW Trains that we […] Read More »
Our Union is under attack by a hostile NSW Government
Dear Members, As we advised in prior newsletters, we always anticipated that […] 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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