NSW Train Strike: Details, Demands and Theories

The NSW train workers went on a 24-hour strike on 28 Jan, 2018, demanding a 6% pay rise, improved working conditions, day offs, and rostering. The presentation discusses the details of the strike, its demands, and the relation between the dispute and pluralist and utilitarian theories.

NSW Train Strike Train
Strike

The NSW DISPUTE
 The Sydney trains and the NSW train
management refused to negotiate a fair
enterprise agreement that was quite
reasonable
 Train workers stopped working for 24 long
hours
 The event took place on 28 Jan, 2018, Monday
 The strike time was 12.01 a.m. to 12.01 a.m.
of the next day

Continuation….
 The train workers were unhappy.
 They demanded 6% rise in their pay
 Demanded for improved working conditions
 Day offs and rostering
 Unhappy with the enterprise agreement
 Strike came after when workers voted for
protected industrial actions

Relation in between the dispute and
the two theories
 Pluralist theory
 Utilitarian theory
?

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