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The National Secretary of the Transport Workers Union of Australia, Tony Sheldon, has reacted angrily to Nationals’ Leader, Warren Truss’s remarks that there is no evidence to support a system of safe rates for truck drivers.
In a speech to the NSW Transport Workers Union delegates conference today, federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese MP, provided a timetable for the introduction of safe rates for truck drivers across Australia.
Qantas management is now on notice that Transport Workers Union members at Qantas are ready to take industrial action against moves to damage the airline.
Ground handlers at Qantas fear the company is planning a bigger industrial campaign than Patricks Stevedores launched against its workforce in the waterfront dispute of the mid-1990s.
Today, the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) will officially join the Australian Aviation Union Federation (AUF), giving pilots a voice through the largest representative aviation body in country.
After talking down Qantas international for over a year, Qantas has today realized its grand plan to destroy the Qantas brand and replace it with aircraft and business partnerships that will kill at least 1000 Australian jobs.