Speaker 1: This is huge breaking news. There has been a resolution
Speaker 1: in the long running dispute between the New South Wales
Speaker 1: government and the Combined Rail Unions, the industrial dispute that
Speaker 1: has brought Sydney to its knees over the past at
Speaker 1: least twelve months. It would appear the industrial action is over.
Speaker 1: The dispute has been settled. I've just been handed some
Speaker 1: information that says an agreement has been reached between the
Speaker 1: state government and the Combined rail unions in the Fair
Speaker 1: Work Commission. This brings the end of the industrial dispute
Speaker 1: that's caused so much disruption over the past twelve months.
Speaker 1: There is a proposed enterprise agreement. It has been facilitated
Speaker 1: by the Fair Work Commission and it will provide rail
Speaker 1: workers with a twelve percent increase over three years plus
Speaker 1: back pay. And I should point out that's much much
Speaker 1: lower than what the railway workers were after. This will
Speaker 1: deliver apparently a number of technology based solutions to improve
Speaker 1: recovery times when there are incidents on the tracks to
Speaker 1: bring the system to a halt. For exact ample, train
Speaker 1: crews will support the introduction of a new digital disruption
Speaker 1: management system that will end the current practice that relies
Speaker 1: on a manual system of phone calls and paper based
Speaker 1: instructions during the recovery from incident, so as well as
Speaker 1: the pay, they're basically the unions have agreed that they
Speaker 1: will move into the twenty first century and actually used
Speaker 1: new technology to help resolve to problems on the rail
Speaker 1: network when the aging infrastructure fails. Well that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: So there had been a ban on industrial action up
Speaker 1: until it was the end of June, so time was
Speaker 1: running out. Given dunes on Sunday. Jim begins on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so this is a massive breakthrough. Finally it would appear
Speaker 1: there's an end to the dispute. The Minister for Transport,
Speaker 1: John Graham says the agreement will bring relief to the
Speaker 1: disruption from industrial action that around a million people a
Speaker 1: day have been forced to endure. The process has been strained,
Speaker 1: the patience of training commuters is we're thinking the much
Speaker 1: needed reset allows us to implement improvements from passengers with
Speaker 1: the full support of the rail workforce and unions. The
Speaker 1: Treasurer Daniel Mookie says this is a positive result for
Speaker 1: rail workers and for commuters. Rail workers will be better
Speaker 1: off with a fair wage increase, commuters will have greater certainty,
Speaker 1: the city will be better off. So just repruting the
Speaker 1: long running dispute between the combined rail unions headed up
Speaker 1: by the RTBU and the state government is over. There
Speaker 1: will be a twelve percent pay rise over three years,
Speaker 1: and there will be no more strikes