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Protected Action Ballot – HOW TO VOTE Transdev Workshop Enterprise Agreement 2018 was voted down by 87.75% of members/workers.  On 16 March, 2018, the Fair Work Commission issued a protected action ballot order to be conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC).  Ballot papers will be posted to members on...

Delegates are the engine room of the TWU. They mobilise, represent and defend members and ensure they stay safe and receive the best possible wages and conditions. Our offices have been a hive of activity this week with delegates from across the transport sector undertaking specialised training to ensure that...

Ensuring members a safe, secure and better future is central to bold and ambitious plans discussed today by TWU (VIC/TAS Branch) organisers and officials. The Future Focus meeting, which heard from TWU Federal Secretary Tony Sheldon, discussed the unprecedented industrial, political and community actions being mapped out by the union....

The TWU (Vic/Tas Branch) has began 2018 as busy as it left off 2017 but there is always time to get out and break bread with members. So far this year we have held Member Dinners in Rochester, Warrnambool and Leongatha. On their way to the fantastic Leongatha Members Dinner...

Delivery riders and supporters protested yesterday over low wages that force 75% of riders below minimum rates and a lack of protections for injuries and abuse on the job. Josh Klooger, a delivery rider who was sacked after two years with Foodora over raising pay and conditions said things were...

Today the ACTU has launched the biggest union advertising campaign in decades. The message is simple: Big business has too much power and Australians need more secure jobs and a wage rise. It’s the largest single ad campaign by the ACTU in more than a decade, since the Your Rights at...

TWU members work in time-critical industries and many will be punching the clock across the entire Labour Day weekend to ensure everybody else can enjoy the time off. Planes wouldn’t take off, party supplies wouldn’t get delivered to shops, buses wouldn’t operate and the garbage wouldn’t be collected….the list goes...

Truck drivers have won strong protections against exploitation after the Fair Work Commission approved TWU safeguards for part-time work. The safeguards mean employers will be forced to pay financial penalties if drivers on part-time arrangements work full-time hours, to ensure part-time work is not used as a way for not...