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Welcome to the Rail and Maritime Transport Union Online
The RMTU is a union for transport workers in which all members have equal rights, whatever their job.
With rapid change, and increasing competition in the transport industry it is important that workers are protected by a strong, well-resourced union, specialising in all aspects of the transport industry; rail, road and ports.
The structure of the RMTU gives you the opportunity to be fully involved in a democratic union as collective decisions are made which may affect your job and conditions of employment.
You have the opportunity to elect your workplace union representative (delegate), as well as branch and national union representatives. You have a voice at all levels of the RMTU.
Latest Media Releases
Auckland rail workers consider further action as Transdev and Auckland Transport ignore safety concerns
Media Release Rail & Maritime Transport Union
Sunday 28th January , 2018
Auckland rail workers are again voting on taking industrial action as their employer insists on cutting staff on commuter trains, despite serious health and safety concerns.
“Transdev and Auckland Transport aren’t budging on driver-only operation, which will severely compromise passenger and public safety,” says John Kerr, Rail and Maritime Transport Union organiser.
Click here for full media release
Government bringing fairness back to industrial relations
Media Release Rail & Maritime Transport Union
Thursday 25th January , 2018
Changes to employment law announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today are a significant rollback of the previous government’s unfair and unbalanced attacks on workers’ rights, says the Rail and Maritime Transport Union.
“We’re delighted to see the government taking action so early in the year to rectify the damage done to workers and good employers by the National government,” says Wayne Butson, general secretary of the RMTU.
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Port Workers’ Union Condemns Boss’s “Excessive” Pay
Media Release Rail & Maritime Transport Union
Monday 11th December, 2017
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) says Lyttelton Port CEO Peter Davie’s $955,000 pay packet cannot be justified and is symptomatic of a broken wage-setting system in New Zealand.
‘We’re in the middle of negotiations for a port wide collective agreement that covers cargo handlers, marine, maintenance and security staff and this news is slap in the face for those workers,’ said RMTU South Island Organiser John Kerr.
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Campaigns -
All Aboard - Stay Safe - insist on a Train Manager
For more information on this campaign - click here
For more information on this campaign - click here
Save Our Electric Trains
The Greens are running an online petition -
"We request that the House of Representatives review KiwiRail's decision to replace its electric freight trains with diesel locomotives"
Click here to go to the petition
SUPPORT AUCKLAND TRAINS
Click on the image above or here to sign the petition
RMTU / KIWIRAIL Health & Safety -
Click here to go to the RMTU / KIWIRAIL H&S page
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Campaigns
Save Our Rail : Northland
Kia ora to everyone in the Rail and Maritime Transport Union
Just to let you know, Save Our Rail Northland's new web-site is: http://www.saveourrailnorthland.org.nz
We'll be adding to the site as things develop, so keep checking in to see where we're at.
Thanks.
Alan Preston
Tel (09)4315389
Also
Save the Gisborne Napier Rail Line
Click here to go to Facebook page
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Books & DVD's of Interest
BLACKBALL 2008
A commemoration of the 1908 miners’ strike on DVD
Review by Dean Parker - click here
To purchase a copy - click here
Samuel Duncan Parnell - A Legacy
The 8 Hour Day, Labour Day and Time Off
For more information including Foreward by Helen Kelly - click here
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