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NatRoad Exposed At Hearings Over Failure To Represent Transport Operators & Drivers

March 29

TWU MEDIA RELEASE, 29 March 2016

The National Road Transport Association has been exposed during weekend hearings for failing over the last two years to inform its members or educate them on the road safety watchdog’s Order on safe rates.
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TWU Slams NatRoad For Abandoning Transport Companies And Drivers At Road Safety Tribunal

March 26

TWU MEDIA RELEASE, 26 March 2016

The National Road Transport Association has failed to represent transport companies or truck drivers by refusing to hold major retailers and manufacturers to account for late payments and low rates, the Transport Workers’ Union has said.
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TWU Demands Quality Jobs For Employees As Airport Revenues Soar To $3 Billion

March 23

TWU MEDIA RELEASE, 23 March 2016

Australia’s main airports increased their revenues to almost $3 billion while many airport workers have had their wages frozen and their working hours cut to part time.
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TWU Demands Government Close Loopholes Allowing Untrained Workers To Drive Trucks

March 22

TWU MEDIA RELEASE, 22 March 2016

The Transport Workers’ Union at a Senate inquiry has called on state and federal governments to urgently close loopholes allowing untrained, illegal and exploited workers to drive trucks.
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UPDATED: TWU TO HOLD TALKS WITH SCOTT’S ON TUNNEL INCIDENT

March 21

This Thursday (March 24) the TWU are holding a second round of talks with Scott’s of Mt Gambier, the company whose trucks were driven in the incident last month when a driver on a temporary visa was unable to reverse his truck out of Sydney’s M5 tunnel after trying to enter it in error.
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Truck Drivers, TWU In Canberra To Demand Focus On Road Deaths

March 16

TWU MEDIA RELEASE, 16 March 2016

Truck drivers along with the Transport Workers’ Union are visiting Canberra today to demand that the Federal Parliament tackle the high death toll in truck crashes.