Across the industry, transport workers understand the power of standing together to achieve real change at their workplace and in their communities. Our members play a vital role in the fight for a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work for all transport workers.
Together, we fight to secure the best pay, conditions and safety standards for transport workers, and to keep our families and communities safe while on the move in Australia.
Welcome to our Spring Journal. The 2026 campaign was years in the making, with a huge string of victories at our back heading into a massively consequential year. We have already made great strides towards our future, and are joining members in standing up to anti-worker practices.
Thousands of transport workers will strike for 24 hours today in a fight for safe, secure jobs in Australia’s deadliest industry, which has been driven down by corporate greed from huge transport clients like Aldi and Amazon.
After taking steps towards protected industrial action, a first wave of workers at major transport companies Team Global Express and Linfox have averted strike action after reaching in-principle agreements that provide job security and future of work protections.
After fighting to secure wage increases for all bus workers, the Transport Workers’ Union is proud to have achieved $200 million in additional funding for the struggling sector from the NSW Government – but calls on everyone to come to the table in the upcoming Multi-Employer Agreement (MEA) negotiations or risk shutting down services from Wollongong to Port Stephens.
The Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) is proud to be contributing to the upcoming Bus Industry forum for Western Sydney in Liverpool, NSW, in partnership with Bus NSW, Business Western Sydney, Western Sydney University and other industry stakeholders.
Swissport workers are demanding the company ensure job security with increased hours, and conversion to full-time employment. While ground handling jobs used to be well-paid, secure careers, after Qantas’ illegal outsourcing the sector has become casualised and insecure, with a revolving door of workers who can’t stay in the industry under the poor conditions at companies […]
The protests come as Amazon attempts to delay the TWU’s application to introduce fair minimum standards in the last mile delivery sector. In January, Amazon joined Harris Farm to begin its first Australian grocery delivery service, which risks lowering standards even further in road transport, already Australia’s deadliest industry. At Amazon Flex, workers use family […]
The TWU has welcomed today’s Federal Court ruling that Qantas will be penalised $90 million – the largest employer penalty in Australian corporate history – for illegally sacking and outsourcing over 1800 workers, signalling the decision as a moment of justice for loyal workers who’d loved their jobs at the airline.
As of today, tolls have once again increased across the NSW Road Network. The Transport Workers’ Union continues to decry these rate increases which disproportionately slug owner drivers and small businesses every quarter.
The Transport Workers’ Union put the entire industry on notice over the weekend, with National Secretary Michael Kaine’s comments on the upcoming fight for 2025 sitting prominently on the front cover of The Australian.
The TWU has been relentless in fighting to ensure Chapter 6 is responsive to transport workers and small businesses in the 21st century, in a campaign which began over a decade ago. The long fought-for changes will include, but are not limited to: Throughout the day, the Union received a great deal of support – […]
Enough is enough – Transurban must provide relief for the industry and listen to the voices of small business.
Four years on from being outsourced, and a year after the High Court unanimously agreed the outsourcing was illegal, 1700 former Qantas workers have had yet another win in the Federal Court with Qantas ordered to pay compensation for economic and non-economic losses, in the largest case of illegal sackings in Australian history.
Transport reform legislation marks the beginning of the biggest shakeup of the transport industry, putting us well on our way to securing better rights, conditions, and job security.
We’re wasting no time using the new laws to start reshaping the industry.
Welcome to our Spring Journal. The 2026 campaign was years in the making, with a...
Thousands of transport workers will strike for 24 hours today in a fight for ...
After taking steps towards protected industrial action, a first wave of workers ...
After fighting to secure wage increases for all bus workers, the Transport ...
“For over a decade we have had a fair tendering process, delivering stability and decent wages & conditions. The only way to guarantee this for the future is by standing together.”
“With the union at my back, I’ve been able to stand up to discrimination in the workplace and negotiate for decent wages.”
"As a TWU member I joined the fight to improve the standards of the aviation industry. The union has never backed down from ensuring fairness is at the forefront at work."