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TWU members should be aware that while most Australians are intent on enjoying the holiday season – there are some unscrupulous employers who love nothing more than ripping off secondary students and young people starting their first jobs. This happens everywhere – including the transportation sector. To wipe out this...

As temperatures soar and most Victorians and Tasmanians are locking down in air-conditioned comfort, spare a thought for our baggage handlers. Without these transport workers moving the bags in nearly 40C, the planes dont fly.   ON a hot day the heat creeps up through Darren McIntosh’s boots and hangs...

The many thousands of TWU members who work in or around the Tullamarine Airport precinct should be aware of important road closures. The Tullamarine Freeway will be fully-closed between the M80 Ring Road and the Calder Freeway from 10pm Thursday 5 January to 10am Sunday 8 January. The 60-hour continuous...

TRUCK driver Ian Ammon has been in constant pain since a crippling workplace accident over two years ago. On May 11, 2014, the Leongatha-based Devondale Murray Goulburn employee, whose job involved driving a 30,000 litre tanker from dairy to dairy in the Gippsland to collect milk, was sent flying when...

Every passenger bus in Victoria will be fitted with perspex security screens and loop barriers to protect drivers from the risk of violent assault following a long and hard-fought TWU campaign. It is expected the full roll-out of new security screens on about 2000 existing buses will cost an estimated...

A new SkyBus service, the Avalon Express, will run between Melbourne’s CBD and Avalon from February 1 next year. It’s another great win for Avalon Airport, just one year after the Andrews Labor Government secured its long-term future. Avalon Airport now offers Jetstar services to Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney and the...

The chain of responsibility has been around for two decades but the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) says it’s taking too long to sink in. Early results from a large NHVR survey of 800 transport and logistics supply chain businesses and customers found 1 in 5 still do not have adequate COR...

Workers at Qantas Ground Services have overwhelmingly endorsed a new agreement and package securing increased superannuation payments, domestic violence leave and 32 full time positions. The TWU-endorsed Agreement received a 96% yes vote. Negotiations for the new agreement at QGS started in November 2015. The agreement also delivers industry first penalty...

About a third of Australian workers are being ripped off by rogue employers who are holding back some or all of their superannuation entitlements, according to a report out today. Research by Industry Super Australia has found employers dodging superannuation payments are pocketing $3.6 billion per year from 2.4 million...