GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS (PERMANENT WAY) INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Australian Workers' Union, an industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 373 & 652 of 2005)

 

 

ORDER

 

The Commission orders that -

 

1.          The Industrial Committee, known as the Government Railways (Permanent Way) Industrial Committee published 16 April 1993 (274 I.G. 761) be dissolved.

 

2.          There be established a new Government Railways (Permanent Way) Industrial Committee for the industries and callings of: -

 

All persons in the employment of Rail Corporation NSW and the State Transit Authority of New South Wales on the wages staff of the Way and Works Branch and the Signal and Telegraph Branch, on and in connection with the Railways of the State:

 

Excepting-

 

Employees engaged in the manufacture, fitting, overhauling, repairing, or installing of electrical apparatus or instillations, or persons employed in the maintenance of electrical apparatus or installations, or in running electrical plant, or their assistants engaged in such industries, other than those who, in the running or assisting in running electrical plant, require little or no practical knowledge, and are mainly workers of a different class;

 

Engine drivers and firemen, greasers, trimmers, cleaners and pumpers, engaged in or about the driving of engines, electrical crane, winch and motor drivers;

 

Carpenters and joiners;

Stonemasons and rubblemasons;

Bricklayers and tuckpointers;

Plasterers;

Plumbers and Gasfitters and their assistants;

Painters;

 

Wood machinists and other employees in saw mills and timberyards, timber getters;

 

Cabinet makers, wood turners, French polishers and upholsters employed in sawmills and timberyards, and in the coach making industry;

 

Engineers, fitters, turners, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, patternmakers, and their assistants;

 

Boilermakers and their assistants;

 

Moulders and their assistants;

 

Coachmakers and their labourers and their assistants, coach painters, and lifters other than loco. Lifters.

3.          The said Industrial Committee shall consist of three (3) representatives of employers and three (3) representatives of employees.

 

4.          The representatives of employers shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, 3 by Rail Corporation NSW.

 

5.          The representatives of employees shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, 2 by The Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union, NSW Branch, and 1 by The Australian Workers Union, New South Wales.

 

6.          This order shall take effect from 4 March 2005 for a period of three (3) years.

 

 

 

P. J. SAMS  D.P.

 

 

 

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