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Activist #12, 2011 Rail & Maritime Transport Union Volume 2011 # 12 Published Regularly - ISSN 1178-7392 (Print & Online) 16 Sept 2011 OTIRA HITS THE FAN wage for sleepover shifts. Over 98% have voted in favour of the deal. Over 60 There have been a series of fan failures meetings of Service and Food Workers Union within the Otira Tunnel on the Midland Line. members have voted on an offer to settle The tunnel has 2 fans fitted and this is the 10-year dispute before a Supreme Court meant to provide safety redundancy in the hearing set down for 13 September. event of a failure. The difficulty arises when SFWU National Secretary John Ryall said the 1 fan is out of action and the second fails settlement, which would ensure the full with a train in the tunnel. The effects are minimum age was paid for workers doing immediate. The (up ‘sleepover’ shifts to 5 Dxb/r) loco’s by the end of overheat and starve 2012 was a for oxygen and victory for low- shutdown. The loco paid workers. Engineers are immediately at risk. The settlement, totalling more The Union and its than $100million, members are provides for 50% reconsidering the of workers’ back wisdom of entering pay claims to be the tunnel with 1 paid and ensures fan inoperative. The sleepover shifts Union has called for will be paid at the the immediate full minimum convening of the wage by the end of 2012. The cost of the Otira Tunnel Council and the consideration settlement will be shared by Government of an independent analysis of the current and the IHC. safety framework and provisions for train operation. There are lots of tunnel experts Now Cabinet has signed off the deal, the in NZ currently and so it should not be only part of the process left is for Parliament difficult to source one to undertake the to pass legislation and extend the settlement exercise. to other providers than IHC. 98% OF UNION MEMBERS BACK “This is a really great outcome, not only for workers, but for those requiring support and SLEEPOVER MINIMUM WAGE their families,” said John Ryall. “After a long DEAL struggle it is good to see government investing in this sector.” Around 1700 disability support and community mental health workers have LYTTELTON PORT COLLECTIVE voted nearly unanimously to accept a AGREEMENT RATIFIED revised Government offer to end their long- running struggle to be paid the minimum The RMTU-MUNZ Collective Agreement with Authorised by The Rail & Maritime Transport Union Inc, Level 1, Tramways Building, 1 Thorndon Quay, Wellington. 2 www.rmtunion.org.nz The Activist Lyttelton Port was ratified by an be received in the Unions National overwhelming majority of members at a Office by 0900hrs Monday 17 October joint union meeting on 15 September. 2011 The deal delivers a 4% wage increase WA TRAIN DRIVERS STRIKE immediately, 3% of which is backdated to the expiry of the previous collective QR National train drivers (a number of whom agreement in April. There are two further are ex NZ LE’s) have been striking since increases of 3% in both September 2012 June over pay and shift hours. Western and September 2013. Australia’s 2011/12 harvest is expected to break records in several zones making it This means that in less than two years from vital that grain is moved promptly to port now members’ pay will have increased by and a reliable rail service is in place. 10.36%. A Rail industry source that requested not to Whilst the negotiation process was be named told Rail Express that QR National disrupted by earthquakes and snowstorms, train drivers in WA are seeking parity with it was also prolonged by the Employer their Queensland counterparts, who are tabling a list of clawbacks that the unions’ being paid more. “There is about six to eight negotiators had to fight off. weeks before this becomes a real issue for The fact we got this deal without having to transporting the state’s harvest by rail, so accept clawbacks or taking industrial action QR National has a small window of is testimony to the bargaining strength of a opportunity to come to the table,” the source fully unionised workforce. said. KR INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL A QR National spokesperson told Rail Express the company is “disappointed” that NOMINATIONS RECALL – some of its WA depots had taken industrial PASSENGER 2011 - 2013 action, given it was in the middle of a negotiation process with employees’ As no nominations were bargaining representatives. received for the following 2 “We continue to bargain in good positions nominations are faith and have provided recalled for those positions employees with a 4% pay on the KiwiRail Passenger increase in July to ensure they Industrial Council. are not disadvantaged while Yard Operations negotiations continue,” the spokesperson said. If you are employed by KiwiRail Ltd in a Terminal This proposal was rejected by Operations capacity in the RTBU members. Passenger Group then you are eligible for nomination for INFRASTRUCTURE this position. WORKERS PROTECTION Scale 1 Recent events have prompted the need to If you are employed by KiwiRail Ltd in a remind all those involved in track protection capacity which is paid under payscale 1 in to make sure all processes are followed and Passenger Group then you are eligible for not rely on any assumptions. The nomination for this position. importance of reliable protection for infrastructure workers is very clear – Nominations must be moved and unreliable protection puts their lives at risk! seconded by current financial Union Ideally we would have physical barriers to members who are employed within the stop a train entering a worksite when it is same area for which the nominee is not clear and while there have been being nominated for and an acceptance prototypes of electronic detonators and of nomination signed by the nominee. static train stop for the Wellington Electrified Correctly completed Nominations must 16/09/11 3 www.rmtunion.org.nz The Activist Area, physical barriers can still ineffective if LYTTELTON PORT COMPANY CITY clearance is wrongly given. There have been a number of near hits so we must DEPOT DISPUTE GOES TO stop this trend now. Communication plans EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS and clearly defined responsibilities for giving clearance within each team are AUTHORITY essential. Remember even if the workload Lyttelton Port runs an operation on the is big and workers are rushed for planning, Christchurch side of the Lyttelton Tunnel safety must come first! that is an extension of the Port. 168 GLITCHES MAR CHINA ’S The RMTU has recently recruited all of the HIGH -SPEED RAIL Forklift Operators on this job. They’re paid up to $7 an hour lower than workers on the An internal report by China’s ministry of other side of the hill despite, in our view, railways has revealed the country’s high- falling under coverage of the LPC Combined speed railways experienced 168 “glitches” Unions Agreement. in the month of July alone. The Company is refusing to accept these High-speed trains manufactured by members are part of the Combined Unions CNR experienced the most problems , Agreement. with the ministry’s transport bureau On one level it’s a narrow legal argument. identifying 56 malfunctions occurring on On another, human, level it’s about eight trains built by CNR’s Changchun unit and a families getting a decent wage. further 30 issues with trains built by the company’s We’re off to the Employment Tangshan unit. Relations Authority to get a determination. If the Authority 106 out of the 168 issues were agrees with us these members reportedly caused by “design will get a well -deserved boost in and manufacturing quality their pay. problems”. No-one wants to have to fight in The report was an internal court over matters like this. If we do, it’s notice to Chinese local railway officials and good to know that one of the benefits of trains manufacturers, and was then picked union membership is having the support and up by the country’s official China Daily representation that enables us to do so. newspaper. The report identified issues with trains built FIJI GOVT IMPLEMENTS ANTI - by four high-speed train manufacturers in UNION DECREE total, including CSR, China Daily reported. Fiji’s military-led government has In August the Chinese Government implemented a harshly punitive decree announced that it would suspend approval designed to virtually outlaw trade union of all new railway construction projects, activities and further crush dissent. The slow down all of the country’s high-speed Essential National Industries (Employment) trains and commence safety checks on its Decree 2011, ENI, was enacted on 9 high-speed railways in the wake of the fatal September, despite months of protests and high-speed train collision near the city of warnings across the Asia Pacific region that Wenzhou in July that killed 40 people and it is illegal, indefensible and dooms any injured over 200. attempt to return the nation to democracy. The collision has raised major concerns Fiji’s government was installed by a coup in around the globe over the country’s fast- 2006. In 2009 the then president suspended growing high-speed rail sector. the country’s constitution, dismissed the NOTE: CNR manufacture the Court of Appeal and introduced public Locomotives and wagons purchased by emergency regulations. These restrict KiwiRail. freedom of expression and the right to 16/09/11 4 www.rmtunion.org.nz The Activist peaceful assembly and have reportedly “The performance of the freight business been used alongside a campaign of during this time was particularly intimidation to silence opposition.
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