Coles has been a focus of the TWU's road transport campaign. Truck drivers and their employers presented a united front at the TWU National Council in Darwin in their calls for a greater focus on road safety in the supply chain. ARTIO ...
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Tony Sheldon. Photo courtesy of The Age. Unions need to take the intellectual lead in spelling out a vision for the future of Australia, according to Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) national secretary Tony Sheldon. Mr Sheldon told ...
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The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) has released what it calls alarming new evidence from a survey of more than 950 truck drivers across the country that graphically highlights the pressures in Australia’s most dangerous industry ...
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Emirates Tim Clark and Qantas Alan Joyce at the signing of the agreement. Understandably, Qantas and Emirates airlines have welcomed the ACCC's conditional approval of their partnership, while the Transport Workers Union continues its ...
National secretary of the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) Tony Sheldon said revelations from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that it did not investigate the impact the proposed Qantas/Emirates alliance will have on ...
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Qantas has welcomed the decision by Fair Work Commission in the arbitration case with the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA). The Fair Work Commission has endorsed Qantas’ right to manage its business. The union ...
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Photo courtesy of DAF Trucks Australia. One half of the Supermarket duopoly, Woolworths, has made encouraging public commitments to playing their part in tackling the lethal pressures in trucking while the other half, Coles, continues to ...
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The decision of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal to prioritise the retail sector in its first annual work programme is a victory for truckies, small business and the travelling public, said national secretary of the Transport ...
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Tony Sheldon, national secretary of the Transport Workers' Union of Australia, (TWU) and Michael O'Connor, national secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, (CFMEU), have taken aim at the Qantas Board and management ...
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The government's Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal can best address the continuing safety crisis in trucking,which has claimed the lives of six people in the past week alone,by focusing on the retail sector and by conducting a travelling ...
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On March 29, 2012 (the written judgment was served in early April 2012), in the patent infringement lawsuits in Germany at the District Court Düsseldorf which Nichia Corporation ("Nichia") filed against Harvatek Corporation ...
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On March 29, 2012 (the written judgment was served in early April 2012), in the patent infringement lawsuits in Germany at the District Court Düsseldorf which Nichia Corporation ("Nichia") filed against Harvatek Corporation ...
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The Timber and Woodworkers Union (TWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has raised concern about the frequent power cuts which, it says, is badly hurting the timber and wood industry. Frequent outages and power surges, the Union observed, ...
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