Pay Rise Arrives For Transport

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17 March 2025
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Pay increase won, secured, and finally paid to members.

After a long fight waged by the PSA, members in Transport for NSW (TfNSW) have finally received their pay increases.

In November 2024 the PSA confirmed that the union had negotiated a pay rise for members and other staff in TfNSW.

The PSA signed a memorandum of understanding with TfNSW, alongside other unions including the Rail Tram and Bus Union (RTBU). The deal agreed to commence redrafting and amalgamating the Transport for NSW and Sydney Metro Authority Award, and the Roads and Maritime Services Consolidated Salaried Award, into the one single Award.

All unions were required to agree with the pay increase, so the PSA had to convince the RTBU to come on board, despite its resistance to the deal.

In December 2024 the PSA secured a 4 per cent pay rise, backdated to 1 July 2024. It was a hard-fought campaign led by delegates, and pushed through by the PSA, which has the greatest coverage of TfNSW members.

Finally, in late January 2024 members in TfNSW actually received their pay rise. On top of the 0.5 per cent increase to superannuation received in July 2024 members got the 4 per cent increase in salaries backdated to 1 July 2024. This will be followed by 3 per cent increase in salaries from the first full pay period in July 2025, and the same in 2026. Further, the offer includes a safeguard mechanism to protect wage earners if the Sydney Consumer Price Index (CPI) exceeds 3.5 per cent in the second or third year of the deal. If this is the case, there will be negotiations for a one-off, non-cumulative, cost-of-living allowance (COLA). If the Sydney CPI exceeds 4 per cent in the second or third year, members will receive a $1,000 taxable, one-off, non-cumulative cost-of-living adjustment payment, plus superannuation.

“The PSA is always more than happy to work professionally with fellow unions,” said PSA CPSU NSW General Secretary Stewart Little. “The priority will always be the outcome for members. The PSA’s first concern above any issues of demarcation or professional competition is what will benefit union members, regardless of how many unions are involved, and in what capacity.”