Strike postponed after NSW government reaches deal

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A deal has been reached with the combined rail unions to keep train services running in Sydney this weekend. Industrial action was planned for the Sydney network from tomorrow morning until Sunday morning.

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00:00We've struck an agreement with the combined rail unions in NSW to ensure that trains will

00:09be operating this weekend. Obviously that means that those that need to use the rail

00:14network tomorrow and over the weekend can use it. That's good news for commuters in

00:19NSW. I need to also say that intensive bargaining will begin between the government and unions

00:27in NSW over the next two weeks with a view from all sides to get a long term deal across

00:36the unions that cover rail in the state that will last multiple years. We believe that

00:42there's enough good faith in the room to get that agreement in a short space of time and

00:47the government and the unions have committed to that. We're hopeful that we can have a

00:52breakthrough in that very soon but obviously the detailed work is yet to come. The unions

00:58have asked the government and I've agreed to run as many 24 hour train services this

01:04coming weekend as possible. We are working with Transport for NSW to ensure that crews

01:12operations are in place and are available to do just that. So they will be available

01:18some tonight, many tomorrow night and most the night after that. Although we might have

01:24full coverage, 24 hour coverage across the main train lines in Sydney on Friday evening

01:31but we're still working through the logistics of that.

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