00:00The tussle between workers and management over pay threatened to disrupt train travel
00:06to Homebush for tomorrow's Bledisloe Cup.
00:09But the rail, tram and bus union has cancelled industrial action that was expected to hamper
00:14special services.
00:15This is a big weekend for Sydney, we want it to work without a hitch.
00:19The government met their demand for 50 cent fares by making train travel free for the
00:23weekend.
00:25But it's still warning of delays with other work bans remaining in place and footy finals
00:29straining the network.
00:31We are expecting some service cancellations as a result of industrial action.
00:36Doing this at this particular time is really just not right.
00:41It's the right of every worker to hold his labour back if he or she wishes.
00:47Separate industrial action over the metro conversion of the Bankstown line has delayed
00:51the first stage of the shutdown which was scheduled for tomorrow.
00:55But late today the government reached an agreement with the union allowing the project to go
00:59ahead.
01:00The government has agreed to have one staff member present on every train and platform
01:05on the South West line, just like in the city section of the metro.
01:08But while it's made progress with one union, it's locked in a standoff with another.
01:15The Industrial Relations Commission has recommended nurses be given an interim pay rise of three
01:19per cent while negotiations continue, provided they cease industrial action.
01:24The Health Ministry has agreed, but the union is planning to strike on Tuesday, defying
01:29the judgment.
01:30When we have got other states paying upwards of 10, up to 18 per cent more, three per cent
01:36is just not sufficient.
01:37The union is demanding an immediate pay rise of 15 per cent.
01:41In fairness, that 15 per cent in a single year, in anyone's books, is a very, very difficult
01:47thing to try and be able to deliver.
01:50Caught in the middle are the hundreds of patients whose surgeries are likely to be delayed if
01:54the strike goes ahead.
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