DELEGATES RALLY: Drivers Hold Woolworths Accountable for Cost Explosions Over 500 transport workers demonstrated outside the Woolworths store in
Rosehill to highlight the situation being faced by thousands of drivers around Australia
who are not receiving a safe rate of pay or cost recovery from the powerful transport
clients like the major retailers. (Read more)
Action Plan for Safe Rates Campaign Endorsed by 200 TWU Rank and File Delegates The Transport Workers Union and its members are fighting for a national system of safe rates and full cost recovery for employees and owner-drivers to ease the extreme pressure being placed on the safety of drivers. (Read more)
TWU Seeks Fuel Relief for Drivers The Transport Workers Union and its members are fighting for a national system of safe rates and full cost recovery for employees and owner-drivers to ease the extreme pressure being placed on the safety of drivers. (Read more)
A Step in the Right Direction: Federal Government Announces Commitment to National Safe Rates. The National Transport Commission (NTC) will investigate and report on driver
remuneration and payment methods in the Australian trucking industry and make
recommendations for reform. (Download statement)
TWU Welcomes Commitment into Safe Rates for Transport Industry
The Transport Workers Union has today welcomed today’s announcement that the
National Transport Commission (NTC) will investigate and report on options for
implementing a national system of safe rates for employees and owner-drivers. (Read more)
Truckers form fuel price protest convoy More than 100 heavy trucks have formed a go slow convoy from the NSW Southern Highlands to Sydney on Wednesday, in a protest against high fuel prices. (Read more)
Coles & Woolies:
Don’t let Australian
Truckies Down The Transport Workers Union has today continued its fight to hold the major transport clients
accountable and bring relief for transport workers and their families. (Read more)
Truckies Bear Down on Rudd The Rudd government is under pressure to create a national system to compensate truck drivers for rising fuel and repair costs, after the Transport Workers' Union warned that Labor had ignored a resolution adopted by the party's national conference to help owner-drivers offset costs. (Download article)
No Entry for Foreign Drivers The federal government has removed access to temporary visas for truck drivers. (Download article)
Qantas execs get a handle on bags QANTAS are training executives to act as strike breakers as baggage handlers prepare to negotiate a pay deal. (Download article)
TRUCKIES TAKE ACTION OVER FUEL 210 heavy vehicles, and many small cars, today participated in an F3 “GO SLOW” protest over the rising cost of fuel. (Find out more)
Truck Drivers Need Relief from Cost of
Fuel The Transport Workers Union has today announced that it will seek changes through the Industrial courts to allow for cost recovery for owner-drivers in the transport industry. (Find out more)
Comcare Decision Wrong for Future Health
& Safety of Workers The Transport Workers Union has today responded to the decision by the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission to grant self-insurance licences under Comcare to transport companies TNT and Transpacific, and defer a decision on Fleetmaster. (Find out more)
JOHN DELLA BOSCA’S CONTRIBUTION TO SAFETY IN
THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY The Transport Workers Union of New South Wales has today acknowledged John Della
Bosca’s vital contribution to improving safety in the transport industry. (Find out more)Speeding truckies no longer scapegoats TRUCKIES who speed and take drugs to stay awake will no longer be the scapegoats for big companies setting unrealistic deadlines. (Find out more)Fuel pain not over: Qantas QANTAS chief executive Geoff Dixon last night threatened to again raise airfares and cut more routes if global oil prices continued to climb, saying the airline would do whatever it took to look after shareholders. (Find out more)Huge hole in security at airport A MAN was able to walk past customs and immigration counters to farewell a friend at the departure gate in a major security breach at Sydney International Airport. (Find out more)QANTAS JOB CUTS THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY Yesterday’s decision by Qantas to slash jobs when the company is earning record profits is the height of hypocrisy.
Only yesterday Qantas was advertising for baggage handlers to work in Sydney airport’s ramp services section. (Find out more) QANTAS DECISION TO SLASH JOBS
A KICK IN THE TEETH The decision by Qantas to slash jobs, when the company is earning record profits, is a kick in the teeth for the 38 000 men, women and families who work for the airline.(Find out more)Union Guilty Of Doing Secret Deal to
Dud Workers The Federal Magistrates Court yesterday found that the National Union of
Workers (NUW) and DHL Exel Supply Chain colluded to place employees at the
company's Matraville site on a poor agreement they did not negotiate. (Find out more)OTHER NEWS >>
March 1968 - 40 years and nothing has Changed!
The Voice of the Transport Worker reports that Forklift Drivers Refuse
to Join the Storeman and Packers! (Download article)
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