Recently an Uber driver had a first-time win in the Fair Work Commission. This might not seem relevant if you’re a truck driver or a transport operator, but in fact it’s highly relevant, not just because
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Long distance drivers to take one-week strike action against national operator
Long-distance truck drivers employed by a national truck fleet are set to park up their rigs for one week over ongoing industrial disputes.
Drivers employed by GKR Transport Australia-wide will take one-week
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TWU lifts the lid on recent government transport discussions
You don’t often get a group of a couple of dozen truck drivers, baggage handlers, food delivery riders, employers and union officials walking through Parliament House. But at the beginning of September
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Gas transport supplier confirms BPAY issue temporarily paused WA truck runs
Supagas has responded to an issue impacting its truck fleet in Western Australia last week, confirming a temporary interruptions to deliveries in the state.
Supagas says a BPAY processing delay affecting
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TWU calls for toll relief in the wake of another NSW price rise
The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is calling on New South Wales to review its toll road network as prices are set to once again increase from today.
The quarterly toll price change has seen another
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TWU looks ahead to upcoming road and air industrial push
As we get closer to the end of the year, there’s a lot happening around road transport.
The first: an update on our applications – using new laws won by the industry – to lift standards in road transport.
It’s
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New report shows the need for transport industry change
The large discrepancy between transport operator profit margins and the profit margins of the big businesses they serve has been highlighted in a report by transport industry not-for-profit Transport Education
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TWU addresses dire straits situation
We’ve known for a long time that road transport is in dire need of reform.
It’s why the whole industry has come together to campaign for and win laws that will let us start making road transport better.
Road
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Unions call for fair standards on new Amazon government NBN contracts
A trio of unions have called for fair worker conditions to be included in new government contracts issued for the NBN network.
With the federal government awarding NBN contracts to serve regional Australia
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TWU: Time to fight for better
When the gig economy came to Australia, we knew it spelled trouble for road transport.
First came companies like Uber with rideshare and food delivery, and then we saw the entrance of Amazon with its gig-like
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