About the RTBU

Charlie Broughton, a Queensland Rail train driver

A Short History

With the creation of the Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union - the RTBU - in March 1993, two important things happened.

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Part of the Environment Movement

The RTBU is clearly aligned with the environmental movement on the following issues: urban planning, freight transport, energy use, reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and social justice.

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RTBU in 1990s

The RTBU is one of the 17 large unions directly represented on the ACTU Executive, giving rail, tram and bus workers a direct voice at that level for the first time in decades.

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Developing a Land Transport Industry

The RTBU considers that the lack of an effective land transport industry policy is the biggest single failure of the eleven years of federal Labor government.

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The Future of the RTBU

The union has been pushing for a broader transport industry union since the RTBU was formed, and has negotiated a federation of transport unions with the Transport Workers Union, which covers urban and long-distance truck drivers, and private sector bus operators.

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