Online food delivery service Deliveroo has “immediately” ceased operations in Australia, leaving over 15,000 workers in limbo. The company went into voluntary administration after its UK parent company, Deliveroo PLC, decided to cease funding and exit the Australian market. “It is with deep regret that Deliveroo is taking the difficult decision to end our operations…

Thousands of drivers in the now fully privatised bus industry in New South Wales (NSW) have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike, causing major delays and confusion on the first day of the Easter school holidays. The Rail, Tram, and Bus Union (RTBU) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) are demanding that the…

Australian transport workers are calling for the right to participate in talks with the federal government and other third parties to maintain and improve the conditions of the country’s supply chains. Unions said that transport workers’ voices had not been included in the federal government’s response to the flood disaster in Queensland and New South…

Australia’s peak industry employer association is calling on the government to loosen isolation rules for a wider range of essential workers in the economy, similar to the latest changes to the food and grocery sector, to relieve the huge stress the supply chain is currently facing. “Tomorrow’s national cabinet meeting must agree to workable, consistent…

Thousands of delivery workers at Australian courier company StarTrack have walked off the job for 24 hours from midnight Sept. 23 after negotiations over job security and pay broke down. Around 2,000 StarTrack employees are striking across the country after the Fair Work Commission approved the industrial action while rejecting StarTrack’s claim that it would…

Logistics giant Toll has criticised a nationwide strike by over 7,000 truck drivers over a pay dispute, saying the Transport Worker’s Union was not interested in achieving an outcome through negotiations. Truckies will strike for 24 hours on Friday, which could have a flow-on effect on Australia’s food and petrol supply chains. The action is…

Australian truck drivers plan to block the highways in protest of COVID-19 vaccines and how the governments have handled their COVID-19 responses. According to social media posts, the protests are planned for Aug. 31 across the country, separate to the upcoming Transport Worker Union (TWU) backed protest over a pay dispute. “Block every hwy [highway]…

Australia’s national food and petrol supply could be affected as thousands of truck drivers agreed to strike on Aug. 27 over a pay dispute with logistics giant Toll. The Transport Workers Union (TWU) will follow through on its July threat to “cripple food and fuel supplies across Australia” after a successful vote saw 97 percent of…

The union for Australian truck drivers is threatening strike action after talks with major logistics company Toll Group broke down on July 14. The Transport Workers’ Union will file an application with the industrial relations tribunal, the Fair Work Commission, to organise a vote to determine whether 7,000 drivers across the country will strike. The…