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Issue No. 318 | 03 August 2006 |
Don't Bank on Costello's Oil Shocker
Interview: A Life And Death Matter Unions: Fighting Back Industrial: What Cowra Means Environment: Scrambling for Energy Security Politics: Page Turner Economics: The State of Labour International: Workers Blood For Oil History: Liberty in Spain Review: Go Roys, Make A Noise
Telstra Contractors in Bush Raid Blue Mountains Fit Through Loophole Chalkies Give WorkChoices An F Canberra Scratches WorkChoices Handicap
The Locker Room Fiction Politics
What Was He On About? Belly On Balance Help Wanted
Labor Council of NSW |
News Drivers Under Attack
A Penrith driver ended up with shards of glass in his eye after a brick was thrown through a bus windscreen in Luxford Road Mt Druitt last Sunday.
In another incident a four-year-old boy was injured and a mother terrified after a "really large" rock hit a bus window in Mt Druitt, while last Friday a Glenmore Park bus was hit with a hail of rocks near a local school. Desperate drivers from Penrith and Blacktown met last week and declared "no-go zones" to protect drivers and passengers, saying a fatality is a "matter of time" unless action is taken. "These attacks must stop," Penrith bus driver Jim Bowman. "We simply want to be able to do our jobs safely and provide a good, efficient service for the public. It is sad we now have to avoid specific streets to protect our own safety." Drivers hope the troubled areas can be cleaned up in the near future. Transport Workers Union (TWU) drivers met with the Ministry of Transport last week.
"It was decided plain-clothed police officers will commence work on board public buses to protect the safety of bus drivers and the traveling public," said Transport Workers Union (TWU) Assistant Secretary Wayne Forno. "The TWU is very serious about implementing solutions that protect bus drivers at work and the members of the public they work so hard to serve." The TWU has been fighting for months to have surveillance cameras installed on every bus and security screens for bus drivers.
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