Meet Your Team!

Tim Dawson

WA State Secretary

Tim has been fighting for the rights of transport workers for over 37 years. As a delegate, an organiser and as the State Secretary a position he has held since 2014. Tim has been fighting for workplace justice in the transport industry for decades, works tirelessly to support transport workers to win in their workplace and improve the livelihoods of transport workers and their families.

Shane O’Brien

WA Branch Assistant Secretary

Shane’s union journey began in the inaugural year of the Organising Works Program, 1994, alongside now ACTU State Secretary Sally McManus and Bill Shortan when he was at the TWU NSW Branch. In 2002, he took up the role of Assistant Secretary of the NSW Public Service Association, winning all three elections he contested.

He returned to the TWU in 2013 as Director of Aviation, later becoming Coordinator of Road Transport in 2018. After several years flying in and out of WA, Shane made the move west permanently in 2023 to take up the role of Lead Organiser, before stepping into his current position as Assistant State Secretary.