Newcastle EA – important update
Apologies for the miscommunication yesterday – the Hazard Light action is scheduled to start from first sign on THIS MONDAY (30th June 2025).
The action needed to be slightly reworded and submitted to the company and that has pushed out the intended start date from today, to Monday.
The Protected Industrial Action applies to all buses with a persistent mechanical or electrical warning that cannot be cleared.
In all instances, follow safety procedures and directions from OCC, except to continue operating the bus. The action will apply differently depending on if you are in service or where you are so please read the below carefully.
- Any bus in service where this occurs will take the following actions;
- Safely secure the vehicle and contact OCC.
- Follow instructions from OCC regarding any safety steps they require you to take.
- If they advise you are to continue the trip, you advise that the trip will be completed and the vehicle returned to the depot.
- Return to the depot.
2. Any bus on-road and not in service will take the above steps minus completing any trip.
3. Any bus at the depot will take the above steps minus returning to the depot.
In all cases, if the warning light is not cleared after the conversation with OCC, the bus will be returned to the depot, booked up and a new bus requested.
Workers are to make themselves available as rostered for work.
Additionally, there is another action that is live from Monday. That is if the company refuses partial work and tells workers not to participate in protected industrial action or not bother turning up, then a 24-hour strike will be triggered from 4am the next weekday until 4am the weekday after.
This is the pointy end of negotiations and if we want KDH to make any kind of counteroffer for wages, we need to encourage them in the only way they seem to understand.