It was all about the news last night as Sydney Siders tuned in for the latest on what was said to be one of the largest train strikes in living memory. All the chaos of the proposed strike did the numbers for Nine and Seven with both achieving a total TV national reach of over 1.7 million and a national average of over 1 million viewers.
Thankfully, for anyone making their way around the city this weekend, just in time for the news headlines that Strike was called off after after talks between the union and the NSW government.
In addition to the lifted strike this weekend, an additional 109 planned work bans for the next two weeks were also lifted.
Premier Chris Minns joined in the with crisis talks after Transport Minister Jo Haylen was unable to get the union to make any changes to its industrial action plans.
“We’ve struck an agreement with the combined rail unions to ensure trains will be operating this weekend,” Minns said. “Those that need to use the rail network can use it.”
“We want to thank the premier for his intervention today, without his help I don’t think we would have gotten to where we got to,” said Secretary of the RTBU NSW Toby Warnes.
“Trains are going to be running 24 hours this weekend as we requested, therefore there will be no shutdown to the rail network”.
“The government and premier have committed to a process over the next two weeks … hopefully we have a resolution before Christmas”.
For those not feeling the news, it was RPA that did the numbers with a total TV national reach of 1,236,000 and an average of 640,000.
