TWU NSW in Minchinbury, New South Wales | Trade union

TWU NSW

Locality: Minchinbury, New South Wales

Phone: +61 1800 729 909

Address: 22 John Hines Avenue 2770 Minchinbury, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.twunsw.org.au

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25.01.2022 Many transport workers spend long hours on the road, away from their families, working in a highly stressful industry where death and injury are common. By tra...ining up their work mates and giving them peer-to-peer support in the yard we hope to address the needs of transport workers in starting to get them the help they need, when they need it. Today, we're launching the Steering Healthy Minds mental health initiative. Tune in to watch our launch live.

25.01.2022 It begins! The Log of Claim has been endorsed by members. Today the TWU in NSW has commenced the process of negotiations for Enterprise Agreements for NSW Bus drivers who provide a critical service to our communities. As our economy recovers, it does so off the backs of bus drivers getting people to work and kids to school. The NSW Government relies on these workers and bus drivers take pride in the work they do. The time is now, the time to seek the changes needed in the transport industry.

24.01.2022 Today I spent some time with Lihong Wei, whose husband, Xiaojun Chen, tragically died after a crash with a bus while working as a delivery rider for food delive...ry service Hungry Panda. Lihong and her two children depended on Xiaojun for their livelihoods. Now they have been left with no income because Hungry Panda say they have no obligation to pay workers' compensation. Lihong told me she doesn’t ever want to see this happen to any food delivery worker or their family, again. I told Lihong that I will continue to raise this issue in Parliament until the Government gets off its backside and does something about the conditions faced by workers in the gig economy.

23.01.2022 SBS Hindi tells the story of transport workers working in the gig economy and why the "new safety laws" proposed by the NSW Government will not protect riders. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4232297030167290&id=168993229831044

23.01.2022 LIVE: delivery drivers protesting against Amazon Flex over undercutting and underpayment of workers.

23.01.2022 Every day TWU trained Health and Safety Reps (HSRs) are in yards ensuring that company managers are held to account for the safety of their workforce. This week we prepared a new batch of HSRs who will today complete their five day TWU training for a safer transport industry. You can choose to have the TWU train you for your workplace. Talk to your Delegate, Official or call the TWU Members’ Service Centre on 1800 729 909 for more info to ensure there is an HSR in your yard. Want to join the TWU? https://twunsw.org.au/join/

22.01.2022 These ACFS delegates from around the country have been in negotiations with the company today. Like so many in road transport, ACFS workers did not slow down in covid-19. These delegates are making sure the company doesn't forget that!

22.01.2022 An expensive off ramp for the WestConnex? The new Sydney Gateway was supposed to be a connection to Sydney Ports and the airport. TWU State Secretary Richard Olsen says it misses the mark. Truck operators need a clearer passage down to the ports. Sydney Gateway was supposed to connect Sydney to the ports but now will only do half the job.

21.01.2022 TWU members who live and work in their local communities have been extremely patient and are disappointed at the company’s actions at the negotiation table. They now feel that the only option left to them by Suez is to take protected industrial action. Suez is using the impact of Covid-19 as an excuse to hold back negotiations. The income that Suez receives from the ACT Ratepayers has not been impacted by Covid or any other external factors. Suez have recently announced an increase in the dividend it will pay to the company’s French shareholders.

20.01.2022 Amazon is an international problem now on Australian soil with Amazon Flex, a business built on the exploitation of workers. The TWU calculates that Amazon workers are actually paying to go to work. Today we stand together on Black Friday, the biggest day in retail to stand up with Unions around the world to Make Amazon Pay.

19.01.2022 World Toilet Day was last week.. and the Sh!t Shovel is still hanging at Mt Boyce. The ugly reality is in NSW rest areas, for truck drivers who are regularly unable to find a place to sh!t, get access to water or park up their trucks safely. The NSW and Local Governments need to give a sh!t. Two comments from drivers responding to the TWU Rest Area survey 1) Makes you keep driving and that isn’t fair. We deserve places to stop, rest, wash and go to the toilet. 2)We are... supposed to be professional drivers, but we have inadequate facilities. Where do our taxes go? Transport for NSW Local Government NSW World Toilet day has a serious message for many in our world and is officially observed by the United Nations "Everyone must have sustainable sanitation, alongside clean water and handwashing facilities, to help protect and maintain our health... " https://www.un.org/en/observances/toilet-day See more

18.01.2022 Make Amazon Pay. Amazon Flex is on our shores, their delivery service puts drivers at risk. We ask all of our community to consider where their goods come from. Amazon is relying on a business model that exploits workers. The TWU calculates that Amazon Flex workers are actually paying to go to work. Today we stand together on Black Friday, the biggest day in retail to stand up with Unions around the world including SDA NSW & ACT to Make Amazon Pay. Thanks for the support from Tony Sheldon - Senator for NSW and Amnesty International Australia Transport Workers Union - TWU

18.01.2022 TWU Bus Delegates met today at Minchinbury, preparing for the 2021 fight for Industry Standard agreements. Join the strength of the union. www.twunsw.org.au/join - If you are in the bus industry, a member and reading this, then talk to the drivers you work with. Ask why they are not yet part of the union and getting ready for the fight. Workers Health Centre joined Delegates today and gave members and officials a free health check, Thanks!

16.01.2022 The TWU have called on the City of Wagga Wagga to consider (soon) an interchange for long distance truck drivers, like the one in Tarcutta. The TWU wrote to the Council and also are looking for Transport for NSW through the NSW Government to consider this vital interchange. We appreciate Council's recent agreement to look into the interchange.

15.01.2022 The TWU Bus is out at bus interchanges across Sydney. TWU Officials were on the road today meeting bus drivers in Region 8. If you see the TWU Bus come and say hello to your union. The TWU is the only Union that can represent all bus drivers in NSW. We have the power to represent you in your depot. Over 1800 bus drivers are on record at the TWU calling for special leave provisions to be supplied if they have to self-isolate or if they receive Covid-19 through their job, add your name to that list - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TWUBusesCovidLeave or Join your union here twunsw.org.au/join

14.01.2022 2500 jobs are on the line. Sign the petition: www.saveqantasjobscom.au

14.01.2022 Today Delegates from BevChain talking with leadership at the TWU including State Secretary, Richard Olsen on the plans for the future in 2021. We are preparing to speed up the fight that was slowed down by Covid. It’s been a tough year, Covid-19 has delayed plans for our industry but not set us back. Our plan is about Protecting jobs, protecting hard fought union industry rates and conditions and ensuring those clients that are making profits from the critical work of our members are brought to the negotiating table. This is a shared responsibility for a safer and fairer future for the Transport Industry. Want to be part of the plan for the future? Go here: twunsw.org.au/join.

13.01.2022 Why is it that some transport workers who move international flight crew from Sydney Airport are not issued with protective equipment and subject to the same protocols that drivers who move international passengers are covered by. As another driver cops a dose of Covid, the TWU has questions for government - read more here: https://bit.ly/3zA970g

13.01.2022 Some good news out of a dark week in food delivery, with two riders killed on the job. Congratulations to the rider who bravely spoke out about this awful raci...st attack, and the unconscionable response from Menulog. Thanks to him, his friend will now receive support from the company - something he should have been given without media pressure. Read the full article: https://www.smh.com.au//gut-wrenching-sydney-delivery-ride

12.01.2022 Delegates from major road transport companies across the country have been meeting to talk about their plan to shake things up. Wealthy companies at the top of ...supply chains are making big profits by cutting costs in transport. Jobs are being downgraded. Insecure work is on the rise and wage theft is rampant. People are dying on our roads. Things have got to change. And that means uniting right across the industry. Our plan has not been knocked over by covid, we have adapted it and we are ready to bargain in 2021.

12.01.2022 Shocking new statistics show just how bad the slaughter of truck drivers was last year. During 2019, 58 transport workers were killed, up from 38 the year before. We know this statistic is still not the full picture yet the Federal Government refuses to remedy this crisis

12.01.2022 Angry delivery drivers, owner drivers and members took the TWU Fight for $40 to Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Sydney. Richard Olsen, TWU NSW State Secretary told drivers Amazon Flex has arrogantly driven into Australia with a business model that will block up roads with desperately underpaid delivery drivers in unregulated, potentially unsafe vehicles. Read the full story here on the TWU Website: http://bit.ly/amazon-flex-protest

12.01.2022 The TWU Asks the Question, if the NorthConnex is better for the economy, why are road users being forced to use the tunnel. The NorthConnex Tunnel also removes the opportunity for better fatigue management by drivers by limiting the number of places that a truck driver can pull up and rest. Richard Olsen, NSW State Secretary TWU members and operators in the transport industry are telling me how the exorbitant cost of toll roads are impacting their businesses. Owner drivers have told the TWU that the NorthConnex means that many will now pay tolls where they never have had to before.

11.01.2022 TWU Aviation delegates met today with State Secretary Richard Olsen. We need a National Aviation Plan for job security, a safer and fairer aviation industry. The fight continues. The Australian Federal Government has a duty of care to workers in Aviation. "Scomo this is serious".

11.01.2022 Today at Suez in the ACT - Garbage Truck Drivers are on the grass for 24 hours. The Drivers who live where they work have reached a point where they see this as the only way of progressing their claim. Drivers have been at the negotiating table now for five months with Suez management over pay and conditions. Covid has been good to Suez, and subsequently TWU members believe that the profits from the contract they work on are better off recirculated into the ACT economy through wages rather than the profits being shifted back to France and into the pockets of French shareholders.

10.01.2022 This Week, TWU training at the TWU offices in Newcastle. Sub-branch Secretary Mick Forbes with new TWU trained Health and Safety Reps (HSR). Safety at your workplace is a legislated right. When you have a TWU trained HSR the right conversation is being had with your management which means you get home safely, every shift, every day. Want training? Talk to your delegate or official or call our Members' Service Centre on 1800729909. Join your union: www.twunsw.org.au/join

10.01.2022 LIVE: Amazon is an international problem now on Australian soil with Amazon Flex, a business built on the exploitation of workers. The TWU calculates that Amazon workers are actually paying to go to work. Today we stand together with SDA and Amnesty International on Black Friday, the biggest day in retail, to stand up with workers around the world to Make Amazon Pay.

10.01.2022 Meet Jim. He is one of the 2500 workers that Alan Joyce the CEO of Qantas has decided to replace. Jim's job will still exist, it will just be done by cheap, insecure, untrained exploited labour hire workers. #SaveQantasJobs means that we save the spirit of Australia. The Federal Government must act to stop this culling of jobs. Add your name to help save Qantas jobs. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-qantas-jobs

09.01.2022 This week a truck driver attacked while at a rest area in NSW. He's in hospital and we hope for a speedy recovery while the NSW Police investigate. The TWU has been looking into the security and safety of rest areas in NSW. - The TWU is seeking your story - take some time to fill in the TWU Rest Area survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KV66VRP

08.01.2022 Life is sometimes difficult for you as a transport worker on the road, with hours behind the wheel, away from your family and the pressures from the job. The TWU is working with the Steering Healthy Minds programme hoping to help transport workers help each other. A conversation with someone you work with is often the beginning of finding a way out of a problem. The Steering Healthy Minds programme is being launched today watch for the Facebook live on this facebook page.

08.01.2022 2500 jobs are on the line. Sign the petition: www.saveqantasjobs.com.au

07.01.2022 Toll roads, like those operated by Transurban are leaving the transport industry in debt for years to come. Tolls will continue to rise, including NorthConnex which has already had a price rise and it’s not even open yet. The NSW Government needs to get behind transport workers and support moves to enable cost recovery from clients.

06.01.2022 The TWU caught up with members on a Friday night to discuss the need to change the Quarry Materials Contract Determination.

06.01.2022 Trevor has worked as a delivery driver for 38 years. He's worried that companies like Amazon coming into his industry will lower standards and cause rates to drop. Amazon is already lowering standards for their own drivers using their app based business model. The gig economy is exploiting workers and dodging industrial and WHS legislation. The TWU is calling for a safer and fairer transport industry. You can be a part of this by joining the TWU Fight for $40 Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/195052714779408

06.01.2022 Preparing for 2021, the continuing fight for a safer and fairer transport industry. Transport Workers united.

06.01.2022 Today TWU Super who support TWU members present in Conversation with Clare O'Neil

05.01.2022 Dede Fredy and Xiaojun Chen - remember their names, say them out loud, these are transport workers who died on the job. The TWU are taking a stand, you should too. The companies that contract these delivery riders are obligated to report their deaths at work to SafeWork NSW and we know they did not. Here’s a thought, if workers had correct access to safety information, support in trained Health and Safety Reps (HSRs) and proper advice from the company, perhaps those workers... would still be alive today? We are going to court with Deliveroo who have in the past actively delayed HSR elections and the formations of work groups. They appealed a decision that stated workers needed HSRs and work groups. The NSW Parliament and the Federal Parliament have a chance to make this right. Remember their names.

05.01.2022 In the TWU News magazine, recently mailed out to members, we celebrated Harry, a member of the TWU for 78 years. Harry drove for Riverstone meats and Armaguard. Harry turned 100 this year and shared his badge collection with us. You can be a member of the TWU - twunsw.org.au/join

05.01.2022 It’s been a tough year, Covid-19 has delayed plans for our industry but not set us back. All this week, delegates like these from CEVA have been visiting the union at Minchinbury, talking with Officials and State Secretary Richard Olsen, preparing again to make a safer and fairer transport industry. Our plan is about Protecting jobs, protecting hard fought union industry rates and conditions and ensuring those clients that are making profits from the critical work of our members are brought to the negotiating table. This is a shared responsibility for a safer and fairer future for the Transport Industry. Want to be part of the plan for the future? Go here: twunsw.org.au/join.

05.01.2022 This week Mark Buttigieg MLC called on the Upper House of the NSW Parliament to condemn Qantas management for their decision to axe and outsource 2,500 jobs when they have received over 800 million dollars of taxpayers money. The debate will continue next week where Mark will be arguing that the House calls on Qantas to reverse this heartless decision! https://www.facebook.com/MarkButtigiegMLC/videos/2460101630957196/UzpfSTE1MDk1ODc0NDk2MDU4NTozNDkzMjY3MDgwNzI5NzE4/

04.01.2022 The TWU question to the NSW Government on behalf of Transport Workers: is this an effective way of taking your share of the responsibility for safety in the transport industry? Solutions which target only the Transport Workers and not the whole supply chain are missing the point. This is a bit like a former NSW Minister telling truck drivers that the technology exists which can give them an electric shock to keep them awake. The TWU and Food delivery riders are outside NSW Parliament over ‘tough new laws’ to monitor, target and fine riders in police blitzes while companies like Uber and Deliveroo are let off the hook for exploitation and deadly pressures.