Warnes told a press conference on Friday morning that delays across the network were “entirely attributable to the government issuing, last Friday, 5,000 individual lockout notices to train crew workers” across the state.
A NSW government spokesperson said that the unions had requested a $4,500 bonus payment for every rail worker “at the last hour” of extensive negotiations.
Sydney commuters have been warned to avoid non-urgent rail travel on Friday amid delays and hundreds of service cancellations, as a pay negotiations between the train unions and state government grinds to a halt.
This was never part of our offer, nor was it in the union’s counter offer,” the government spokesperson said in a Friday morning statement.
“After extensive negotiations over the last few days the unions at the last hour asked for a $4500 bonus payment for every rail worker.
