00:00The Premier was at a boxing gym today to observe some friendly sparring, but the gloves came
00:11off soon after with this assessment of the rail union's tactics.
00:15I just think they're trying to play us all for mugs and I think ultimately they think
00:19everybody in Sydney's stupid or that they're getting away with it, but everyone's onto
00:23them.
00:24Weary commuters say the uncertainty's almost as bad as the delays themselves.
00:27I can't handle it really, it's getting annoying.
00:31It actually took me about 45 minutes to wait for the train.
00:35At least 80% of trains ran according to the timetable this morning, but hundreds of services
00:40still had to be cancelled, with 310 drivers and guards failing to report for their shifts.
00:46When there's been a 40 or 50% increase in sick leave that just so happened to coincide
00:51with industrial action and they expect everybody at home, everybody watching the television
00:56to go along with this farce.
00:58That sort of language has an impact.
00:59The community takes their anger out on the people that are wearing the Sydney trains
01:03lanyards on a day to day basis, so I think it's unfair.
01:07The union denies coordinating the staff no-show.
01:10It says the government's threat to dock the wages of employees who run trains at slower
01:15speeds is giving some workers anxiety so they're staying home.
01:19The stress of being served with a lockout notice, the stress of not knowing whether
01:23you can get paid for a day.
01:25The opposition says it's time the Premier talked to the Prime Minister about using federal
01:29powers to intervene.
01:30Ask them to stop this industrial chaos once and for all.
01:36Instead the Premier's betting on a bout with the union in the Fair Work Commission on Wednesday.
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