200+
agreements expiring
60,000+
transport workers
1
nationwide fight
Road
- Trucking
- Bus driver
- Courier
- Cash-in-transit
- Oil, Fuel & Gas
- Waste
- Concrete
- Forklift operator
Aviation
- Cabin Crew
- Pilots
- Ground
- Catering
- Security
- Freight
- Fleet Presentation
- Screening/Security
- Refuelling
- Guest services/PAX
- Air Traffic Control
We’re joining forces across road transport and aviation for the first time ever.
This is the first time road transport and aviation members in every sector will be standing together to lift standards for all.
We’ve got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join forces with other transport workers across the country in 2026. If we do this together, we can raise industry standards and improve the lives of all transport workers.
We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join forces with other transport workers in every sector across the country in 2026.
If we do this together, we can raise industry standards and improve the lives of all transport workers.
Trucking is the deadliest industry in Australia.
Every year, there are hundreds of truck-related deaths on our roads.
Through contract pressures, drivers and transport
operators are under pressure to rush to meet deadlines, skip rest breaks and delay vital truck maintenance.
Aviation has been decimated.
Aviation used to be an industry of lifetime careers.
Decades of privatisation, outsourcing to the lowest bidder, and eroding standards have turned secure jobs into low-paid, insecure, transitory work.
It’s not just workers who’ve been affected. Public safety and standards have plummeted too.
The problem starts at the top.
With over 12,000 transport companies competing for client contracts, operators are forced to cut corners to stay afloat.
The result:
- Longer hours
- Unsafe workloads
- Lower pay
- Deadly pressure
Road Transport
In road transport, powerful clients like Aldi and Amazon use their market power to squeeze contracts to the bone.
Their race to the bottom pressures operators to slash costs — and it’s workers who are paying the price with lower pay, unsafe conditions, and declining safety standards.
With hundreds and hundreds of yards standing together as one, clients and employers will forced to listen to workers.
Aviation
It is time for not just employers, but their clients—airlines and airports—to pay their fair share for decent jobs.
These companies are making billions in profits and they must ensure decent pay and conditions for aviation workers.
With aviation members above and below the wing organising across every airport, we’re building the power to lift standards for everyone — so airlines can’t just shift work to bottom-feeders and undercut decent jobs.