Welcome to 2025.
| As we enter 2025, I want to acknowledge the incredible strength and unity each of you has brought to the TWU over the past year. Together, we faced numerous challenges and through our solidarity, we secured significant wins — ensuring safer workplaces, fairer wages and better job security for all transport workers. This year, we have critical campaigns ahead that will require the same level of determination. One of our top priorities is the fight to reform Chapter 6, ensuring owner-drivers and subcontractors are afforded the protections and fair rates they deserve. |
| Additionally, we will be campaigning to legislate council tendering protections for waste workers. The waste industry has seen far too many instances where workers’ rights are undermined through unfair tendering processes. Our goal is to ensure that every waste worker has job security, fair wages, and safe working conditions, regardless of who holds the contract. Alongside these key campaigns, we will continue our relentless pursuit of better enterprise agreements and broadly improving the transportation sector. Our goal is to negotiate agreements that reflect the true value of our members’ work, providing fair pay, improved conditions and the job security that every worker deserves. We know that these fights won’t be easy, but with the solidarity and resolve that define the TWU, we are more than capable of achieving them. I am proud of what we’ve accomplished together and I am confident 2025 will be a year of continued success. |
Transurban’s Greed!
| We’re calling out Transurban for its relentless toll hikes hitting Sydney’s transport workers! From January 1, 2025, tolls on routes like the Hills M2, Lane Cove Tunnel and Eastern Distributor rose by $1.17 for heavy vehicles and $0.44 for cars. This is putting further strain drivers and workers across Sydney. An Independent Toll Review projects Sydney motorists will pay an outrageous $195 billion in tolls over the next 35 years, while Transurban prioritises profits over people. TWU NSW State Secretary Richard Olsen urges the NSW Government to step in, ensuring fair and transparent toll pricing for all. “It’s time for Transurban to recognise that their profit-driven approach is hurting the very people who keep our cities moving. These toll hikes are unsustainable and unjustified.” |
Major Investment in Gilgandra
| We are welcoming an announcement by the Albanese and Minns Labor governments which will see $40 million invested toward upgrade intersections in Gilgandra. These crucial upgrades will make life safer for heavy vehicle drivers and locals, while improving freight movements. With $32 million from the Australian Government and $8 million from NSW, this will open up bypass access for all heavy vehicles, easing traffic through the town centre. We’re excited to see the positive impact this will have on our members and the community. |
