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TWU Celebrates
Oct 12, 2016Truck drivers are celebrating a major win over industry lobby group NatRoad in its bid to pay them less by seeking an exemption from rules in NSW setting minimum pay rates. The rules have been in place for over 30 years, bringing ...
Tags: TWU, NSW, celebration
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All You Need to Know About Trucking Contracts
Oct 8, 2016The ATA has released its contract checklist, which aims to help trucking businesses ensure their contracts are fair and legal. The checklist responds to the lengthening payment terms faced by trucking businesses, as well as concerns that ...
Tags: contract checklist, ATA
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TWU Gathers On The Retail Front
Mar 22, 2016Coles has been a focus of the TWU’s road transport campaign promoting ‘Safe Rates’. The Transport Workers’ Union has lodged an application at the road safety watchdog to force major retailers to pay transport ...
Tags: TWU, Coles, Safe Rates, Retail front
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Clash Looms Over Pay Between Truck Owners and Drivers
Mar 11, 2016Against: NatRoad Australians should brace themselves for higher prices whilst owner-operator truckers are at risk of losing their livelihood ,if a new Order takes effect next month – with The National Road Transport Association ...
Tags: Natroad, Truck, Clash looms
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The Government Allay Fears of Traders Over "Complexities" of The GST
Jul 10, 2015The government has sought to allay fears of traders over "complexities" of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) with finance minister Arun Jaitley saying that the proposed taxation system will end the cobweb of various taxes and "miseries" ...
Tags: textile manufacture, GST
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Ara Has Expressed Disappointment in The Federal Government's 2015-16 Budget
May 19, 2015The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has expressed disappointment in the Federal Government’s 2015-16 Budget, which announced the lion’s share of transport infrastructure funding to go toward roads, and no new money for ...
Tags: Rail Industry, rail infrastructure
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ITF Has Launched The Global "Afe Rates and a Safe Industry -We're in, Are You?"
Aug 20, 2014The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria, has launched the global “Safe Rates and a Safe Industry – We’re In, Are you?” campaign for Australian truck drivers in the ...
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Tony Sheldon Said Road Safety Is More Than Red Tape
May 30, 2014File photo. Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Tony Sheldon said a recent court decision relating to the truck crash that killed two Western Australian men in 2011 serves as a reminder that road safety is more than red tape ...
Tags: Road Safety, Red Tape
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Michael Kaine Said Many Petrol Tankers Were Literally 'Mobile Bombs'
Apr 29, 2014A national tribunal is to consider minimum safety standards for Australian petrol tankers, after nationwide research revealed 1 in 4 tanker drivers were pressured to speed and 1 in 2 drivers reported inadequate brake inspections. ...
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ECA Condemns The Decision by The Federal Government to Cut All Funding to ECA
Mar 24, 2014Ethical Clothing Australia (ECA) condemns the decision by the Federal Government to cut all funding to ECA and to abandon its ethical procurement guidelines. This decision will harm vulnerable home workers and ethical Australian businesses ...
Tags: Ethical Clothing, Govt Funding, TCF industry
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There Is One Heavy Vehicle National Law Beginning on Monday 10 February
Feb 12, 2014From Monday 10 February, there is one Heavy Vehicle National Law regulating trucks, buses and other heavy vehicles across most of Australia, with the aim of 'boosting efficiency and productivity in the transport industry.' Under the new ...
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30,000 Qantas Staff Would Spend Christmas in Fear That The Jobs Might Be The Ones to Go
Dec 20, 2013Transport Workers Union national secretary Tony Sheldon said it was disappointing that Qantas had refused to outline where its 1,000 job cuts would fall. Qantas management was asked for details of the 1,000 job cuts at a meeting with ...
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EU Investigation Is a Normal Process Within State Aid and Competition Procedures
Dec 19, 2013This EU investigation is a normal process within state aid and competition procedures and that an investigation is underway is no basis for scaremongering reports says GMB GMB, the union for energy and construction workers, has learned ...
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Tony Sheldon Said Six Deaths in Two Days Was Evidence of The Pressure on Drivers
Nov 25, 2013Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) national secretary Tony Sheldon said six truck crashes and six deaths in two days was evidence of the pressure on drivers to speed or skip rest breaks, to meet unrealistic deadlines. “Road ...
Tags: six, truck-related, death, two days
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Eric Abetz Announced a Review of The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal
Nov 25, 2013Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Tony Sheldon says the Federal Government’s review of the national Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal showed contempt for families of the 330 people killed in truck-related crashes in ...