RAIL UNION RMT today announced a series of four 24 hour strikes by cleaners employed by the Carlisle Group on their Eurostar contract at St Pancras International in their fight for jobs and pay justice after the company failed to make any meaningful effort to resolve the dispute during extensive talks at arbitration service ACAS.
October 20th, 2009
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RAIL UNION RMT today called upon the government to intervene to end the on-going shambles of National Express rail operations and to set a clear timetable for renationalisation of the East Coast Mainline and the East Anglia and C2C franchises as a takeover bid for the company collapsed in disarray this morning triggering a 30% collapse in National Express’s share price.
October 16th, 2009
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TUBE AND TfL union RMT today slammed confirmation from Mayor Boris Johnson that tube fares will increase by 3.9% from next year and bus fares by over 12% as “dire news in the middle of a recession which will be deeply damaging to passenger numbers and revenue income.”
October 15th, 2009
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TUBE UNION RMT announced today that it will be balloting all London Underground staff for strike action and action short of a strike in a continuing dispute over pay.
October 12th, 2009
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RAIL UNION RMT today demanded the immediate reinstatement of the planned Glasgow Airport rail link as new information emerged exposing the financial grounds on which the proposed scrapping of the scheme was justified by the SNP administration in Edinburgh as totally bogus.
October 8th, 2009
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OFFSHORE ENERGY union RMT today slammed the major subsea engineering and construction company Subsea 7 for engaging in a “race to the bottom” on pay and conditions through the hiring of cheap, overseas labour which has put jobs and conditions in the North Sea field under threat.
October 7th, 2009
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RAIL UNION RMT today called for plans to privatise the Tyne and Wear Metro to be scrapped after it emerged at the weekend that only one private company – the German-owned DB Regio – has been shortlisted to take over the service in April next year.
October 5th, 2009
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ON THE tenth anniversary of the Paddington rail crash, transport union RMT has called upon the government to mark the date by intervening to stop planned cuts in Network Rail maintenance which have put 2500 jobs, nearly 20% of the workforce, at risk.
October 5th, 2009
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RAIL UNION RMT will begin re-balloting on-train catering staff on Virgin Trains tomorrow (Friday 2nd October) for strike action and action short of strike action over the imposition of new working arrangements that disrupt existing rosters and increase the average working day.
October 1st, 2009
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RAIL UNION RMT today welcomed an announcement by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis that the East Coast Main Line franchise, currently run by National Express, will be renationalised this autumn for longer than originally expected but have called on the government to set a firm timetable for bringing the prestige route under public ownership on a permanent basis.
September 30th, 2009
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