The Union representing rail workers says an order from rail regulator Waka Kotahi that effectively shuts down Te Huia from Papakura into Auckland is over the top and makes no sense. Waka Kotahi issued a Section 28 notice under the Railways Act last .
The union representing rail workers says a major boost to rail funding in the Budget is going to make a huge and positive contribution to modernizing the transport sector. Rail and Maritime Transport Union General Secretary Wayne Butson says the Budget .
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 8:32 am
The union representing New Zealand rail workers has
spoken up against the deaths of rail workers under the
Myanmar military dictatorship.
Rail and Maritime
Transport Union General Secretary Wayne Butson says there
have been reports of 15 railway workers, mostly union
members, being shot at the railway compound at Myitnge near
Mandalay, Myanmar, on 14 April 2021.
“The military
dictatorship are waging a vicious war against unarmed
civilians and workers, and New Zealand needs to do all it
can to bring international pressure on them.”
Mr
Butson says the RMTU is backing calls by the New Zealand
Council of Trade Unions to halt the ratification of the
Friday, 18 December 2020, 9:58 am
The union representing rail workers says KiwiRail
needs to be turned into a ‘public benefit entity’ so it
can operate for the greater good of New Zealand.
The
Government has recently asked the Treasury and the Ministry
of Transport to consider KiwiRail’s “entity form” as
the current State-owned Enterprise (SOE) model is not
working.
Rail and Maritime Transport Union General
Secretary Wayne Butson says SOE legislation requires
Kiwirail to have an overriding commercial focus, and this
short-term approach undermines any long term strategy for
rail as essential infrastructure.
The SOE model works
against the retention of services on lines which may be