Why are Sydney rail workers still striking and is an end in sight?
In June, the government announced it was willing to modify the trains to accommodate the union’s wishes, but demanded a new enterprise agreement with rail workers be agreed to at the same time.After months of back and forth, the government on Wednesday afternoon sent a new deed to the union and agreed to make changes to get the mothballed fleet on the tracks.
However, the union said it would take at least 48 hours to review the new deal and it was disingenuous of the government to expect otherwise. “Ten minutes before he does his press conference, he sends me the deed and then has the hide to stand up there and say we should immediately cancel our industrial action. That was never going to happen.”Yes … maybe. The union and the government met on Thursday morning to discuss the deed and next steps.
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