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Wellington Picket 2 Contents Editorial ISSUE 4 • DECEMBER 2017 THE DECEMBER 2017 TRANSPORThe journal of the RMTU – NZ'sT largest WORKER specialist transport union Wellington picket 2 CONTENTS EDITORIAL ISSUE 4 • DECEMBER 2017 8 FATIGUE Research shows that fatigue can kill and that workers must be vigilant and report incidents to the H&S team. Wayne Butson STRIKE 16 General secretary Wellington Rail strikes RMTU to retain terms and conditions against voracious owners. Battles won and RMTU WOMEN: ROZ MUIR some in progress 18 HE Union membership, delegates and staff have been under huge work- loads and tension since the last issue of our Union magazine and this issue Strong women details some of the underlying reasons. at the heart of We have seen a Labour-led Government take office over the Treasury the Union and benches and it is clear that we are on the crest of a major political shift. Rail, coastal work force is Tshipping, public transport and regional development will see real gains during this Roz's desire.. parliamentary term. Late 2017 is a great time to be an RMTU member! As I type this, my mind is a jumble deciding what to write about as there is just so much to tell. First up, Stuart Johnstone has resigned his position as our Auckland regional organiser and is moving back south to Dunedin to take up a position with the Dairy Workers Union. Most of you will know that Stuart's wife has cancer and so a move south, nearer to family, will be very helpful. So, whilst we are sad to see Stuart leave COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Wellington's Metlink we are glad that he will have an improved support base down South and he will be workers on the picket line in front of Wellington remaining within the Union movement where he will be able to demonstrate and Railway Station last month. use all of the skills and knowledge he has picked up in Auckland over the last four years. We wish them all well in their move. We have advertised for a replacement and look forward to the successful candidate starting as soon as possible as Auckland is a hot bed of activity at present. Transdev has demonstrated behaviours in Auckland and Wellington which have The Transport Worker is published by the seen it characterised within union circles as the 'Talleys’ of the rail industry. Rail & Maritime Transport Union, In Auckland we are currently conducting a strike ballot for Transdev and in Wel- P O Box 1103, Wellington, lington we have seen members within Hyundai Rotem vote in two strike ballots at Aotearoa-New Zealand. 100% and in Transdev Wellington at more than 90% in both. Design and production by Mike Regan. The Wellington strike action is the first stoppage of the Wellington trains since Printed by Pivotal+Thames Publications Ltd, 1994. In a mere 15 months these two foreign multinationals have driven the Wel- P O Box 11-025, Wellington. lington workforce to distrust and dislike them. There is coverage of both of these disputes within the magazine and on the branch Facebook pages. In both Auckland and Wellington branch have loaded member cellphone details and group texts have WWW.RMTUNION.ORG.NZ proven to be a great way of keeping members informed as well as relaying new notices, The Transport Worker December 2017 Worker The Transport ISBN 1173-6488 newsletters and Facebook posts. Your Union is communicating at unprecedented LETTERS 3 levels and members are highly engaged. qualified LEs will be manning (they are all KiwiRail and high performance/high en- blokes) the Ab locomotive. Part of the heads Resignation gagement (HPHE) continue to be a major con- of agreement provides for the future training tributor to organiser and delegate workload. of other KiwiRail staff in steam operation and Dear Editor, KiwiRail is in a high state of change and so this I look forward to some local members putting I started in 1965 as a cleaner translates into a whole lot of groups working their hands up for training. I wish Steam Inc and at the Frankton loco depot on consensus building toward agreed change Pounamu Travel every success in the venture. and sat my boiler’s on many fronts within the various sectors of On behalf of the Union president, NMC ticket, then fireman's the workforce. The operations, mechanical members and staff, I hope and trust that all of and transferred to and networks and industrial councils all have you and yours get through the Christmas/New the Huntly depot. After three at least three projects on the go. We have seen Year holiday period safe and sound. Please, can years, due to downsizing, I was HPHE principles used to reinvigorate the KR all of you who are either having a break or are transferred back to the now new MECA pay scale 7 review which has been strug- working to keep your place of work operating, Te Rapa depot where I remained gling along for a long time. As I write this we make sure you are around to share a happy, until transferring to Westfield are making real and meaningful progress and healthy and – under a Labour led Government in 1979. have a MECA variation postal vote underway. – I know it will be a prosperous 2018. I have been a driver/minder Then, of course, we have the tireless ef- Merry Christmas and a happy New Year driver ever since and finally forts of members to reopen the Main North to each and every one of you and to your after 52 years and nine months Line (MNL) north and south of Kaikoura. Our families! have decided that it is time for track worker and loco engineers – members me to call it quits. I will miss the and delegates – have been miracle workers in STOP PRESS whanau atmosphere that we all this and some scenes are captured on the back enjoy in KiwiRail. cover of the opening celebration. STRIKE AVERTED I am on annual leave until November 27 and therefore On December 1 we have the launch of Further strike action called by Wellington rail the first major steam locomotive hauled train workers for Friday Dec 1 was called off at the last tender my resignation from the operating on the Main Trunk Line (MTL) with- minute when Transdev/Hyundai Rotem agreed to RMTU from that date. withdraw its claim against penalty rates for week- out the use of KiwiRail staff. This has been a Wishing all members the best end work. and to stay united and proud. watershed moment for us all. The RMTU has "This shows the power of working people stand- negotiated and signed a collective agreement ing together to protect good jobs and fair working E noho ra for the operation and ex-KiwiRail trained and conditions," said RMTU general secretary Wayne Alec Buzeika, LE. Butson. The Transport Worker December 2017 Worker The Transport (l to r) Aubrey Wilkinson, Pare-Ana Bysterveld, Ray Brown and Wayne Butson attending the NZCTU conference in Wellington. 4 ACTION Auckland Transdev members rally outside Britomart Station. Auckland's latest battleground: the fight for rail safety UCKLAND has become the logical motivation to drive through frontline in the fight to technological change at the expense keep passenger trains safe of public safety. inA New Zealand and the RMTU is at ALL aboard! In Auckland the introduction the forefront of that struggle. of technological innovations like Rail safety isn't just under attack closed circuit television in the cab here – our comrade unions overseas Staffed trains makes it theoretically possible for are also campaigning against what is the locomotive engineer to control a global issue. are the operation of the doors and "ob- So, given that passenger rail has serve" whether it is safe to close the been around since the first station safe trains doors, lock them and to move the opened in Manchester in 1840, why train from the station. is it in the 21st century that we are automated railway more of a practical This innovation doesn't provide still battling to keep the public and our proposition. The ultimate manifestation of the motivation to actually make the pas- members alive and well? this will be driverless and crewless trains. senger and train operation safety entirely The answer can be summed up in two Neo-liberalism, that type of capitalism the responsibility on the driver however. words: technology and neo-liberalism. that targets organised labour in the relent- Running a railway as a business, instead The Transport Worker December 2017 Worker The Transport Technology is making the idea of an less pursuit of profit, provides the ideo- of a service, where the primary purpose of 5 RMTU members pledging to stand united in this bargaining round and opposing DOO. the rail operator is to make a profit to gener- reason to strip costs out of the system in the the New Zealand Safety Authority, to be ate a dividend for the shareholder provides pursuit of profit. permitted to introduce DDO. At the same that incentive. Transdev Auckland, a wholly owned time, and after amendments to legislation, Driver only operation (DOO) creates subsidiary of Transdev Australasia, itself AT are introducing 'Transport Officers', the opportunity to dispense with the other a wholly owned subsidiary of the French directly employed by themselves, on buses, members of the train crew – train manag- company Transdev, is that player in the trains and ferries. ers and ticket inspectors in New Zealand, game. They are merely the latest in a series These transport officers will have very guards and conductors overseas. Thus, of operators which have won contract and limited powers in relation to the travelling creating a rail operating model that gives the aim to squeeze as much profit out of the public and there is no guarantee that one job of actually running Auckland's railway bureaucrats, ratepayer and passengers for – or any – of them will be on every train, to a private multinational company.
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