Eurostar safety dispute triggers strike ballot
The RMT is to hold a strike ballot at Eurostar in a dispute over safety and and working conditions. The union claims that staff ‘face worsening working conditions with unreliable trains, poor service recovery and operational safety concerns, piling pressure on the workforce’.
RMT welcomes Greater Anglia renationalisationGreater Anglia became the latest private sector operator to return to public ownership at 02.00 yesterday morning, as part of the Government’s programme to reunify and renationalise passenger railways. The RMT union is welcoming this reform, and has pointed out that outsourcing of jobs had already ended on Greater Anglia while it was still owned by Transport UK Group and Mitsui.
Countdown is on for next renationalisationAnother former franchise is to pass back to public ownership on Sunday morning, when Greater Anglia will be taken over by DfT Operator.
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