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19-02-2023, 02:07 PM
Simon Calder
Sun, 19 February 2023 at 12:33 am SGT
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Mick Lynch has news for you. The general secretary of the RMT union has vowed his members will carry out “sustained and targeted industrial action over the next few months” in their long and bitter dispute with Network Rail and train operators over pay, job security and working arrangements.
After what Mr Lynch calls an “in-depth consultation of our 40,000 members”, the RMT has rejected the latest offer from Network Rail and the train operators and instead announced four more days of walkouts and weeks of overtime bans aimed at wrecking millions more rail journeys.
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The intention is to knock out most services across Great Britain. Crucially, signalling staff working for Network Rail will walk out, reducing the nation’s railway to a rump of some intercity lines and commuter routes.
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The union is betting that the government will underwrite the rail industry’s increasing losses. But the transport secretary, Mark Harper, says the railway is effectively a busted flush and that any rescue depends on “modernising working practices”.
Tim Shoveller, Network Rail’s chief negotiator, calls it right when he predicts “a long and drawn out dispute with no obvious end in sight”.
This is now a war of attrition that passengers, rail workers and taxpayers will all lose.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/rail-strikes-n...57647.html
Sun, 19 February 2023 at 12:33 am SGT
......
Mick Lynch has news for you. The general secretary of the RMT union has vowed his members will carry out “sustained and targeted industrial action over the next few months” in their long and bitter dispute with Network Rail and train operators over pay, job security and working arrangements.
After what Mr Lynch calls an “in-depth consultation of our 40,000 members”, the RMT has rejected the latest offer from Network Rail and the train operators and instead announced four more days of walkouts and weeks of overtime bans aimed at wrecking millions more rail journeys.
......
The intention is to knock out most services across Great Britain. Crucially, signalling staff working for Network Rail will walk out, reducing the nation’s railway to a rump of some intercity lines and commuter routes.
......
The union is betting that the government will underwrite the rail industry’s increasing losses. But the transport secretary, Mark Harper, says the railway is effectively a busted flush and that any rescue depends on “modernising working practices”.
Tim Shoveller, Network Rail’s chief negotiator, calls it right when he predicts “a long and drawn out dispute with no obvious end in sight”.
This is now a war of attrition that passengers, rail workers and taxpayers will all lose.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/rail-strikes-n...57647.html
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