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KiwiRail Layoffs Go Ahead
KiwiRail today confirmed that after five weeks of consultation, between 40 and 44 employees at Hillside Workshops will be made redundant. Hillside staff were informed...
Workers Boycott CEO
Rail Union members at KiwiRail will boycott CEO Jim Quinn’s national ‘roadshow’ when it arrives at Carisbrook in Dunedin tomorrow morning, staging a ‘work...
1000+ Protest Rail Work
Over a thousand people attended this afternoon’s Dunedin rally calling for more train building work in New Zealand. KiwiRail is proposing to cut 70 jobs at...
Direct Action Over Hillside
Rail and Maritime Transport Union members are taking direct action over the Hillside issue. Workers in Tauranga held a mass stop work meeting yesterday and unanimously...
Meeting Backs Hillside
Over 400 people turned out last night to support KiwiRail workers threatened by redundancy in South Dunedin. The meeting, called by the ‘Keep Kiwis Working Campaign’...
KiwiRail & Union Talks Break Down
Talks between the rail workers’ union and KiwiRail over the future of 40 jobs at Hillside workshops in Dunedin have broken down. This after the union suggested...
KiwiRail Explains Layoffs
KiwiRail’s CEO says purchasing new locomotives, wagons and containers from overseas is critical to KiwiRail improving transit times and reliability, realising...
Union On KiwiRail Losses
KiwiRail job losses in Dunedin could have been avoided if the government and KiwiRail had made sure major rail manufacturing projects were carried out by New Zealand...
Another Plea For Local Rail Work
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union says confirmation of the declining manufacturing in the Otago region should be a wakeup call to the government to support the...
Locals May Get Wagon Job
Good news for local workers. KiwiRail CEO Jim Quinn confirmed today that KiwiRail will submit its own bid to build new freight wagons to replace its ageing wagon...
Long Distance Rail Numbers Up
The rail renaissance continues despite recessionary times in the past 12 months. All of KiwiRail’s long distance services have shown passenger increases except...
Build In NZ Campaign Rolls On
50 people attended a public meeting in South Dunedin last night to support the union campaign to build new trains for Auckland in local workshops. Speakers urged...
Trains Won’t Be Built Here
Auckland’s electric trains will not be built in New Zealand. That’s the final word today from KiwiRail in answer to the union campaign to have at least...
Union: Unemployed Could Build Trains
Rail workers today continued their campaign to get Auckland’s new electric trains built in Dunedin - by quoting unemployment figures out this afternoon. The...
Row Over NZ Made Trains
The lukewarm reception from the transport minister and KiwiRail CEO today to a call for Auckland’s electric trains to be built here has triggered a political...
