BRITAIN’S BIGGEST rail and Tube union hailed today’s scheduled tabling in parliament of new fire-safety regulations for sub-surface stations as vindication of a five-year campaign to retain standards imposed in the wake of the 1987 King’s Cross fire, which claimed 31 lives.
BRITAIN’S BIGGEST rail union today demanded immediate reversal of cuts to a third of essential track renewals after a broken a rail was discovered on the mainline near Swindon – a month after the stretch of line should have been replaced.
AROUND 100 RMT train conductors working at London Midland depots at Bletchley, Northampton and Watford are set to strike for 48 hours from a minute after midnight on Sunday April 5 in their long-running dispute over Sunday working.
STRIKE ACTION by members of Britain’s biggest rail union at two major commuter train-operating companies has been suspended to allow further talks to take place on jobs and future staffing, and for consultation with members on progress made.
MEMBERS OF Britain’s biggest rail union at two major commuter train-operating companies are to strike for 24 hours next Monday (March 30) in separate disputes over jobs.
NEARLY 700 members of Britain’s biggest rail union at East Midlands Trains are to be balloted for strike action after the company refused to withdraw plans to axe at least 162 staff or guarantee that there would be no compulsory redundancies.
THE TUBE’S biggest union is to ballot nearly 10,000 members across London Underground and Transport for London for strike action in two separate disputes centred on jobs and pay.
AROUND 100 RMT train conductors working at London Midland depots at Bletchley, Northampton and Watford are to step up their strike action in a dispute over Sunday working, with a 48-hour stoppage starting at a minute after midnight on Sunday March 29.
Union tells company: reverse dangerous cuts and save jobs
Union tells company: reverse dangerous cuts and save jobs