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Transport News

TIME TO SHOW RAILCORP AND THE GOVERNMENT WE MEAN BUSINESS - UNDERSTANDING OUR PLAN FOR ACTION Friday, 30 July 2010  Members have voted by over 96% for industrial action. Your campaign committee has endorsed a series of escalating actions to put ongoing pressure on RailCorp and the Government. The first actio [ ... ]

Railcorp Pre Strike Ballot Monday, 12 July 2010 We urge all members to vote and to vote YES! Why Voting YES makes sense! Voting YES sends the message that the deal on the table is not good enough and a decent offer of pay and conditions needs t [ ... ]

Bring Your Ballot to Work Day! Friday, 09 July 2010 All ASU members will receive their pre strike ballot in the mail at home. Next Tuesday 13 July, members are bringing their ballot to work, to be put in a sealed box and sent to the Australian Electora [ ... ]

Where are RailCorp negotiations at? Monday, 05 July 2010 The Combined Rail Unions (CRU) and RailCorp have agreed to have the negotiations conciliated by Fair Work Australia. This means that there is a third party hearing our claims and trying to help us rea [ ... ]

Railcorp Protected Action Ballot – The Facts Monday, 05 July 2010 What is the pre strike ballot? The Combined Rail Unions (CRU) successfully applied to Fair Work Australia to conduct a ballot of all union members for protected industrial action. The Australian E [ ... ]

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Transport Campaigns

• RailCorp Agreement
  The RailCorp Union Collective Agreement expired on March 31 2010.Your new agreement will set your employment conditions and your entitlements. Union members are campaigning to ensure the EBA is fair and equitable. We need to be united and strong to ensure we negotiate a positive agreement for all staff for the years to come.


• General Correspondence - What do you think?
  

  The ASU office receives information from a lot of different sources. General information from RailCorp, STA and Sydney Ferries, industry newsletters and research materials just to name a few.

  Member reaction to this information helps to drive our response on each of these.

   



• Burwood Campus Campaign
  

   The Rail Corporation New South Wales Union Collective Agreement 2008 expires on 31 March 2010. Negotiations for the new agreement will start in the next few months.

  The Combined Rail Unions will be working together to act as bargaining agents for members.



• Better Services
  

  The ASU is involved in the Better Services, Better State campaign. This campaign is based on the Your Rights At Work model and is about raising the profile of the public sector in the community. A large number of public sector unions have come together to raise community awareness about the important role that the public sector plays in the day to day lives of the people of NSW and the importance of investment in it. For information about training days about the campaign please click here.