Five year contract for State Transit

Last year the NSW Government threatened to privatise STA unless drivers took a hit to hard fought award conditions. The union and the drivers stood firm and refused to be drawn into the Government’s blatant attempt at cost cutting.

Clearly we called their bluff as the Government has now awarded a five year contract to STA. This is great news for all our public drivers and shows what can be achieved when we all stand together.

You can check out the full story in the Sydney Morning Herald here.

The union is now calling on the Transport Minister to come clean on the conditions and ‘performance indicators’  attached to the contract and how they are likely to affect drivers. The RTBU has not been privy to negotiations of any such conditions apart from rejecting attempts to vary the award earlier this year. It’ not acceptable for drivers, and the travelling public, not to informed on what measures have been imposed on STA for this contract – be they financial penalties or the need to do further cost cutting.

Notice to Members.