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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...
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...
Who Should Own Auckland Trains?
Auckland Transport has triggered an important debate by wanting to take ownership of the new Auckland electric trains, rather than lease them back from KiwiRail...
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...
Union Watching Auck Electric Tender
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union says it’s watching very closely to see whether KiwiRail honours the local involvement pledge it made during the tender...
Tenders Close For Auckland Trains
Tenders close tomorrow for the $500 million job to build 38 three-car electric multiple units and 13 locomotives for the Auckland rail network. Rail workers say...
China Scores Another Rail Contract
China has won another NZ rail contract and KiwiRail CEO Jim Quinn says on price, the Hillside bid was about 25% more expensive than the China CNR tender. It’s...
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...
Rail Workers’ Historic Agreement
Rail workers have today signed a historic document with KiwiRail which brings all landbased workers together in a single collective employment agreement. Wayne Butson,...
Rail Union Wants Look In
The rail union is calling on KiwiRail to “honour the local content provisions it put in tender documents for the construction of Auckland’s new electric...
Rail Unions Declare ‘Victory”
Rail workers think they’ve had a victory of sorts over their campaign for Auckland’s electric trains to be built in NZ. KiwiRail’s tender document,...
Rail Privatisation ‘Discounted’
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union secretary Wayne Butson says he’s pleased to hear the apparent discounting of a future privatisation of rail with today’s...
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...
Berl: Build AuckTrains Here
Economics consultancy BERL, this morning set out an economic case for using local rail workshops to build Auckland’s new electric trains - rather than...
Locomotive Engineer Shortage A Concern
KiwiRail is experiencing locomotive engineer shortages –and the local union says that staff are being lured to Australia. A recent Australian recruitment drive...
