NSW’s free train days revealed after unions vote for wage deal
Finally, when the Fair Labor Commission ordered the unions to stop the industrial action in February, this order ended on 1 July.
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The unions initially requested an increase of 32 percent and a 35 -hour working week for four years. This was greeted with a 9.5 percent government proposal for three years.
It took months to end the bitter payment dispute and called the transmission secretary Josh Murray called the “complex railway agreement ..
“The parties have worked hard on new measures in this agreement to help them recover our way of cooperating with the way we manage to manage the disruption and the new infrastructure.
RTBU secretary Toby Warnes described the dispute as a “difficult process ve and said that the increase in wage increases is necessary, given the“ difficult work ”of railway workers.
“This is long and often pain, finally to be placed behind us and the workers can return to doing what they do best – they can safely move the passengers around the state,” he said.
The new agreement, which will now be placed in the Fair Labor Commission for official approval, ends in 2028.
When the state government’s union problems end, Premier Chris Minns is still examined how the network was injured for three days in May.
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