Re: 24 hour strike in Queensland

[phaedrus@ultra.net.au (darryl georgee)]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:47:45 GMT, "Dave Proctor"
<daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>According to the 8am bulletin on Sky News Australia QR were inforrmed after
>2300 last night that there would be a 24 hour strike starting at midnight by
>members of the RBTU (or is it RTBU?)
>
>Some Traveltrain services will continue to their destination (according to
>the QR spokesperson who was interviewed) being personned by AFULE members.
>
>Would this have any bearing on Countrylink, Freightcorp or NR services
>(because of involvement of signallers, etc)?
>
>The spokesperson said that some arrangements had been made with various bus
>lines, but also mentioned that due to lack of notice, no arrangements had
>been made with Brisbane Council for rail tickets to be used on their buses
>(so it is going to be hard to get into the city then).
>
>Dave
>
> The strike is in rsponse to QRs' reluctance/inability to implement a "fail safe" 
   sytem to stop DOO trains exceeding their authority in DTC territory

   between Townsville and Mt Isa. They want DOO trains to run ASAP
  with a "fail safe" system promised "sometime"