{"id":371260,"date":"2026-02-18T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=371260"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:29:25","slug":"suburban-rail-loop-delay-fears-as-talks-on-tunnelling-rates-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=371260","title":{"rendered":"Suburban Rail Loop delay fears as talks on tunnelling rates stall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Talks have stalled over a 20 per cent pay increase over four years for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=8160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Suburban Rail Loop\">Suburban Rail Loop<\/a> tunnellers, raising fears of delays on the 26km underground rail line just as workers are due to start digging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sure appears as though the unions are setting themselves up for another go at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=88472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Today the CFMEU looks more like a cartel than a union\">even more money on the back of the CFMEU missing $billions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UP go the costs of the SRL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talks have stalled over a 20 per cent pay increase over four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":305400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,8160],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-371260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-suburban-rail-loop","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371262,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371260\/revisions\/371262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/305400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}