{"id":289297,"date":"2021-08-27T07:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1472737"},"modified":"2021-08-27T07:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:01:18","slug":"the-rmt-union-warns-of-industrial-action-over-rail-network-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/27\/the-rmt-union-warns-of-industrial-action-over-rail-network-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The RMT union warns of industrial action over rail network job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
The biggest rail workers\u2019 union is warning it is \u201cready\u201d to take industrial action against any post-Covid plans to cut jobs and services.<\/p>\n
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said it was stepping up a campaign against a \u201ccynical and opportunist\u201d wave of cuts it warned was being planned across the rail network.<\/p>\n
The union said cuts already being lined up would \u201cdecimate\u201d services and staffing levels and would \u201cfly in the face\u201d of government statements that rail passenger usage is expected to return to pre-Covid levels.<\/p>\n
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said:<\/p>\n
It is crystal clear that cutbacks already planned are just the tip of the iceberg as cynical employers use the cloak of Covid to smuggle through the decimation of jobs and services on Britain\u2019s railways.<\/p>\n
Not only do these planned cuts fly in the face of the Government\u2019s own statements on future rail usage, they also make a mockery of their green agenda as they will force more cars onto the road at the expense of environmentally-friendly rail travel.<\/p>\n
RMT will not sit back while this carve up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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