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To: Dean Valle - Pacific National CEO
Pacific National Coal - Talk to your RTBU Delegates now!
Pacific National Coal are proposing the change a huge number of working arrangements for drivers with no notice and no consultation.
They need to halt their rushed plans and immediatly meet with RTBU delegates to discuss them.
They say they need to make changes to protect their business. Other complanies are engaging with RTBU delegates to consult over operational issues regularly.
Why won't PN do the same and why are they rushing this?
One day, they said they might have to make changes, the next they started rushing headlong into reducing conditions of employment with no notice or consultation. It's not good enough!
RTBU officials, Delegates and members have always worked co-operatively with employers during times of crisis - PN's actions are a disgrace.
Why is this important?
Changes to working conditions affecting rostering can have significant effects on safety and fatigue levels. The other changes could drastically affect people's families with proposals for forced transfer.
If Pacific National get away with this, it's a blank cheque for employers in the rail industry to use the current crisis as an excuse to avoid talking with workplace delegates and offcials about critical changes in the workplace.