D's are delayed because of the TfNSW. This has nothing to do with the PIA. TfNSW has NOT completed the trackside modifications that they have had to complete since August 2023 and have did not begin until July 2024 and the CCN is still not complete. Try asking the Minister about the progress and enjoy having your email blocked.
Three less hours per week, one to two extra paid annual leave weeks per year, a pay rise well above inflation, all overtime double-time straight away, an extra percent of employer contribution to superannuation, long service after only seven years. These guys are taking the piss. They want to reduce regular hours, forcing more OT and/or more workers. More workers means more leverage for the union. Even the 24 hour service request is to gain more leverage. Yes, it's a negotiation, and some of these things are probably bargaining chips, but why not ask for gold toilets and free massages at lunch? I'm always torn with these things. On one hand, we owe a lot to unions. On the other hand, this is an essential service, and the unions should not be dictating the operating model.
Essential? PAY. Your pay, not someone else, govt, budget or martians. Nope, you do not have so much, let they work fo free providing you the possibility to gain your $40K pa? And 24h service just in case you want to get somewhere once a year? Ooops, it does not work this way.
This is going to be a massive blow for sure, especially this weekend. You have pearl jam on saturday and Twenty One Pilots on Sunday at olympic park and the Sydney FC game, the two concerts are going to be 50,000 on their own. Thats also not includin people commuting to work on friday and over the weekend. My best mate was supposed to catch the train from maitland to Sutherland on friday but has to make the commute thursday instead to avoid being stuck in busses the whole commute. Now he is only doing that commute for the Twenty One Pilots concert but imagine the people that have to make that commute daily to work from the reaches of the intercity network.
Hi Phil, I suppose that it is better that most of the week days are not affected, but even the weekend events could suffer from this strike. I am just curious, when did Sydney have its last most recent train strike? I know years ago, especially back in the 1970s, there were quite a number of train strikes. I remember back in November 1973, my dad and I, then living in Sydney, almost became stranded in Griffith NSW, while on holiday there, when a sudden train strike was called. We ended up traveling back to Sydney by plane. I remember another train strike, where it started suddenly in the afternoon and I managed to catch a ride home from work in one of the last trains in the guard's van, as the train was literally packed to the doors. Hopefully, they will soon come to an agreement. Anyway, all the very best. Rob in Melbourne Australia.
@@peterkehoe481 why antirailway? Anti socialistic railway. When railway is a business, when it creates value, allows to gain more, achieve something not possible without it - its perfect. When hamsters whine that someone (govt from MY taxes!) has to provide them cheap railway to commute to city, as they do not have money to pay for this commute, and without it, outside of the city, they are not needed at all to anybody - it destroys everything. Economy, society, technology, railways...
If they get the rise I will be cranky. I'm a nurse and we can't get an increase in wages to keep us inline with other states! Nurses in NSW are the lowest paid in Australia. Train drivers average $90,000 to $160,000 per year, whereas nurses get approximately $76,407 a year
Apparently the government only offered the union a 11% pay rise for over 3 years. The union also wanted the government to do 50 cent fares just like what Queensland did, which would've definitely helped while we're in the cost of living. At least they are still running trains on Thursday and Sunday, especially for anyone including myself who's seeing Pearl Jam and Twenty One Pilots in Olympic Park. It makes it a bit easier to get there but would definitely have to get into Olympic Park with plenty of time to be there on time. Hope the union and government can make offer so they both can agree on the same things.
Ultimately someone has to pay for running our public transport. 50 cent fares in the long term are unrealistic and the union knows it. I wonder if they'd take a wage cut if the fares dropped so low?
Unfortunately we are yet to see how bad running services will be for twenty one pilots on sunday, me and my mate are going to be lining up from 8am which is the earliest the venue allows are we are both diehard fans and unless they run the trains from early morning we will be stuck catching night rides and waiting multiple hours or catching regular busses which will get us there a few hours after wueing will start. I can imagine there being delays and even possible cancellations after the trains start running too which the more casual fans will have to deal with. All of this would be made a lot clearer if trip planner apps such as tripview and the opal travel apps would be updated for the strikes.
So what is new? One day my train will come. Ever sat on a train in a carriage where the air conditioning is either not working or the train driver just didn’t switch it on. Then the train sits on the tracks before entering central for so indefinite period and you cook. The bus replacements are even more horrible. Many don’t have air con that is working or shock absorbers and are over 30 years old pulled out of the moth balls. This will just convince people they need a car. Good one Greens and Labor.
Let's be absolutely clear - the RTBU advised Sydney Trains that they had a choice. Get their act together and bargain towards an acceptable agreement or actions would be taken. The primary action was 24 hour running of train services on all lines (including interurban for those who think they were being left out). Yes, this happened last weekend and was spun positively towards Sydney Trains. This weekend, Sydney Trains decided that they couldn't do 24 hour trains services because of maintenance issues despite having a number of nighttime spaces they could use for maintenance (remember how they sold nightride buses to allow maintenance and then didn't do it). Sydney Trains have decided to stop train services this weekend not the RTBU. All RTBU members are available to work should Sydney Trains management allow them.
@theaussiebackflipboy You should realize by now these channels are more anti-union than anything. Hell he has not bothered to even cover or provide links to the RTBU statements. But has no problem citing the Premier and Transport Minister. Proper coverage of an issue requires presenting BOTH sides and their positions fairly and equally. Bring back the previous administration or hell Haylen should contact Andrew Constance for some advice into how to negotiate. He seemed to be successful compared to Haylen's aggressiveness towards the unions and the public. Don't recommend contacting her office with questions about her portfolio. No fan of the RTBU but the constant attempt to demonize unions of all kinds is a step backwards. If people don't want to be in a union so be it. They should forfeit any and all benefits the unions brought into workplaces.
The government should not be paying these clowns for the shutdown period. Time for a cleanout of the unionised workforce of Sydney Trains like the wharfie cleanout in the late 90's
Very good. Good luck to hamsters, who build all thei lives on the idea "I will commute to the city by cheap train! Life succeded, no need to pay, no need to go up, no need to do anything ant all!". Big surprise, to assemble million of hamsters in the city is VERY expensive. It requires hard work, build skyscrapers, drive trains, supply energy and so on, and what you think - it will be done by itself? Martians send money for this? Nope. So - repent and pay. Or at last stop to pack in city skyscrapers and begin to do something useful, at least do the same bs job but at home or somewhere in Parramatta, Chatswood, Macquarie pk, Hornsby, Bankstown and other places, distributed all over Sydney. City is EXPENSIVE. Transport is EXPENSIVE. Those who cant afford it - make Sydney better, LEAVE!
Gonna watch soon, keep up the great work with your videos and channel, Phil! I really enjoy your channel, among others
ANOTHER 20 YEARS TO THE MARIYUNGS
D's are delayed because of the TfNSW. This has nothing to do with the PIA. TfNSW has NOT completed the trackside modifications that they have had to complete since August 2023 and have did not begin until July 2024 and the CCN is still not complete. Try asking the Minister about the progress and enjoy having your email blocked.
Three less hours per week, one to two extra paid annual leave weeks per year, a pay rise well above inflation, all overtime double-time straight away, an extra percent of employer contribution to superannuation, long service after only seven years. These guys are taking the piss. They want to reduce regular hours, forcing more OT and/or more workers. More workers means more leverage for the union. Even the 24 hour service request is to gain more leverage. Yes, it's a negotiation, and some of these things are probably bargaining chips, but why not ask for gold toilets and free massages at lunch?
I'm always torn with these things. On one hand, we owe a lot to unions. On the other hand, this is an essential service, and the unions should not be dictating the operating model.
The EBA has been expired for how long? How many meetings has Jo Haylen skipped? This is the government's choice, not the union
Essential? PAY. Your pay, not someone else, govt, budget or martians. Nope, you do not have so much, let they work fo free providing you the possibility to gain your $40K pa? And 24h service just in case you want to get somewhere once a year? Ooops, it does not work this way.
This is going to be a massive blow for sure, especially this weekend. You have pearl jam on saturday and Twenty One Pilots on Sunday at olympic park and the Sydney FC game, the two concerts are going to be 50,000 on their own. Thats also not includin people commuting to work on friday and over the weekend. My best mate was supposed to catch the train from maitland to Sutherland on friday but has to make the commute thursday instead to avoid being stuck in busses the whole commute. Now he is only doing that commute for the Twenty One Pilots concert but imagine the people that have to make that commute daily to work from the reaches of the intercity network.
Will this affect trains outside of Sydney like the XPT?
I'm sure the retail sector will extend the Black Friday sale right through till next Friday 29th.
I think they should make train free one day due to this industrial action.
Or infact throughout the four day industrial strike
Commuters should simply protest as a cohesive group - nobody tap on and off
@ yea great idea
Make the union cover the cost.
Hi Phil im glad that their had a announcement but i'll decided to catch the ferry due to industrial action which nobody wants this
Glad I left Sydney just in time
Hi Phil, I suppose that it is better that most of the week days are not affected, but even the weekend events could suffer from this strike. I am just curious, when did Sydney have its last most recent train strike? I know years ago, especially back in the 1970s, there were quite a number of train strikes. I remember back in November 1973, my dad and I, then living in Sydney, almost became stranded in Griffith NSW, while on holiday there, when a sudden train strike was called. We ended up traveling back to Sydney by plane. I remember another train strike, where it started suddenly in the afternoon and I managed to catch a ride home from work in one of the last trains in the guard's van, as the train was literally packed to the doors. Hopefully, they will soon come to an agreement. Anyway, all the very best. Rob in Melbourne Australia.
Chris Minns needs to invoke the Essential Services Act 1988 to stop this madness in its tracks.
I'll invoke it, MYSELF!
@@PaulsTrainVlogs Please do so. Make a video proclaiming it and please give us an update on suing Toby Warnes.
and stop these trains forever. Hurrray!
@@antontsau Why are you on a railway channel if you are anti-railways?
@@peterkehoe481 why antirailway? Anti socialistic railway.
When railway is a business, when it creates value, allows to gain more, achieve something not possible without it - its perfect. When hamsters whine that someone (govt from MY taxes!) has to provide them cheap railway to commute to city, as they do not have money to pay for this commute, and without it, outside of the city, they are not needed at all to anybody - it destroys everything. Economy, society, technology, railways...
Is the Metro still running, being driverless?
yes, but the entire metro is down saturday and sunday for maintenance
Check the track work website as it states that maintenance is between Chatswood and Sydenham. Tallawong to Chatswood is operating.
I hope this isn't going to happen when I visit in February.
they need to make up the time they choose to miss.
Wait so are regional trains running and wut abt endavours?
But why my tripview app say that there are train?
I wished my pay raised 30%
I wish mine went up even 10% lol
i hope they put special event busses for pearl jam
This will end up with a Fare-free Period as a Apology. New content will be dried up.
Everyone should just join together to protest by not paying their fares. There are a million of commuters each day according to the Minister.
If they get the rise I will be cranky. I'm a nurse and we can't get an increase in wages to keep us inline with other states! Nurses in NSW are the lowest paid in Australia.
Train drivers average $90,000 to $160,000 per year, whereas nurses get approximately $76,407 a year
Them getting the payrise doesn't stop you getting the payrise. Have solidarity with your fellow workers
I do agree that Nurses should definitely match train drivers!
both parties should be receiving pay rises.
@@tomv8952 but the gvt will argue that if the train drivers get a raise, there is no money for the nurses
if you have $70K pa - what are you doing in the city, commuting by train? Your place is in some regional area, not in expensive Sydney CBD.
The NSW railway union has always been aggressive, this needs to stop.
Honestly both are equally in the right and the wrong
GOAt bullies
they should replace the stoppage with 1 train per hour on each line.
That would create chaos and possible cause accidents involving injuries and deaths due to crushing and overcrowding.
Im so done with the Bus Tram Train union
More money for less work. How about NO
What a farce Phil 😒
Is it any wonder they are converting tracks to Metro. I want to know which will be the next track to be converted.
Leppington, its perfectly known. But no one knows when.
Hopefully this doesn’t once again affect the d sets
Apparently the government only offered the union a 11% pay rise for over 3 years. The union also wanted the government to do 50 cent fares just like what Queensland did, which would've definitely helped while we're in the cost of living.
At least they are still running trains on Thursday and Sunday, especially for anyone including myself who's seeing Pearl Jam and Twenty One Pilots in Olympic Park. It makes it a bit easier to get there but would definitely have to get into Olympic Park with plenty of time to be there on time.
Hope the union and government can make offer so they both can agree on the same things.
The 50c fares thing was only a temporary thing Labor implemented to try and get more votes, it wasn't meant to be permanent.
Ultimately someone has to pay for running our public transport. 50 cent fares in the long term are unrealistic and the union knows it. I wonder if they'd take a wage cut if the fares dropped so low?
Unfortunately we are yet to see how bad running services will be for twenty one pilots on sunday, me and my mate are going to be lining up from 8am which is the earliest the venue allows are we are both diehard fans and unless they run the trains from early morning we will be stuck catching night rides and waiting multiple hours or catching regular busses which will get us there a few hours after wueing will start. I can imagine there being delays and even possible cancellations after the trains start running too which the more casual fans will have to deal with. All of this would be made a lot clearer if trip planner apps such as tripview and the opal travel apps would be updated for the strikes.
So what is new? One day my train will come.
Ever sat on a train in a carriage where the air conditioning is either not working or the train driver just didn’t switch it on. Then the train sits on the tracks before entering central for so indefinite period and you cook. The bus replacements are even more horrible. Many don’t have air con that is working or shock absorbers and are over 30 years old pulled out of the moth balls. This will just convince people they need a car. Good one Greens and Labor.
What do the greens have to do with any of that. And drivers do not just "not switch the air-conditioning on"
Let's be absolutely clear - the RTBU advised Sydney Trains that they had a choice. Get their act together and bargain towards an acceptable agreement or actions would be taken. The primary action was 24 hour running of train services on all lines (including interurban for those who think they were being left out). Yes, this happened last weekend and was spun positively towards Sydney Trains.
This weekend, Sydney Trains decided that they couldn't do 24 hour trains services because of maintenance issues despite having a number of nighttime spaces they could use for maintenance (remember how they sold nightride buses to allow maintenance and then didn't do it).
Sydney Trains have decided to stop train services this weekend not the RTBU. All RTBU members are available to work should Sydney Trains management allow them.
Stop spamming
@theaussiebackflipboy You should realize by now these channels are more anti-union than anything. Hell he has not bothered to even cover or provide links to the RTBU statements. But has no problem citing the Premier and Transport Minister. Proper coverage of an issue requires presenting BOTH sides and their positions fairly and equally. Bring back the previous administration or hell Haylen should contact Andrew Constance for some advice into how to negotiate. He seemed to be successful compared to Haylen's aggressiveness towards the unions and the public. Don't recommend contacting her office with questions about her portfolio.
No fan of the RTBU but the constant attempt to demonize unions of all kinds is a step backwards. If people don't want to be in a union so be it. They should forfeit any and all benefits the unions brought into workplaces.
The government should not be paying these clowns for the shutdown period. Time for a cleanout of the unionised workforce of Sydney Trains like the wharfie cleanout in the late 90's
32% payrise
DISGUSTING
im early
Very good. Good luck to hamsters, who build all thei lives on the idea "I will commute to the city by cheap train! Life succeded, no need to pay, no need to go up, no need to do anything ant all!".
Big surprise, to assemble million of hamsters in the city is VERY expensive. It requires hard work, build skyscrapers, drive trains, supply energy and so on, and what you think - it will be done by itself? Martians send money for this? Nope. So - repent and pay. Or at last stop to pack in city skyscrapers and begin to do something useful, at least do the same bs job but at home or somewhere in Parramatta, Chatswood, Macquarie pk, Hornsby, Bankstown and other places, distributed all over Sydney. City is EXPENSIVE. Transport is EXPENSIVE. Those who cant afford it - make Sydney better, LEAVE!
You're right? Have you missed your therapist's appointment?