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Oct 7, 2014

TRUCKERS' CLAIMS * Australia: Save the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal

* ACT - Truckers' lives on the line as Muir moves to act

Canberra,ACT,Australia -Sunshine Coast Daily, by Daniel Burdon -6th Oct 2014: ... Crossbencher Australian Motorists Enthusiasts Party Senator Ricky Muir, Labor Senator Glenn Sterle and Liberal Chris Back have put their support behind the Transport Workers' Union campaign to save the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, road safety tribunal, amid claims the pressure placed on truckers to meet strict delivery deadlines is causing un-counted deaths on Australian roads... The tribunal, TWU assistant secretary Michael Kaine said, was crucial to preventing mounting pressure being placed on truck drivers to meet "unrealistic deadlines"... Mr Kaine said the government's plans, as part of its agenda to cut "red tape", was preparing to axe the tribunal... He told APN the tribunal was the only body with the power to intervene when big transport clients like the retail sector "use economic pressure to force faster deliveries at the expense of safe and fair conditions for truck drivers"... Rather, the group called on the government to abandon the plans to axe the tribunal, citing new polling data commissioned by the union which showed some 73% of the 1000-odd people surveyed believed big companies should be held to account if placing such pressures on truck drivers...

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