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Mick Lynch of the RMT said the Rail Delivery Group’s offer did not meet the union’s demands on job security, pay or conditions.

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How ScotRail’s work to introduce '365s' as a stopgap until new '385s' were available earned the prize in the National Rail Awards Train of the Year category.

RMT members learned with great sadness of the untimely death on Sunday 6 April 2008 of Greg Tucker, secretary of RMT’s Waterloo branch since 1993 and of the union’s National Conference of Train Crews & Shunting Grades since 1992 (by Alex Gordon from the Bristol RMT website). Greg had suffered a malignant throat cancer diagnosed over a year ago and was admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital on Saturday afternoon where he died some hours later.

Strike movement in Scotland sparked by end of lockdown measures The relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Scotland, as part of a UK wide reopening of the economy, has sparked a multi-sector wave of strike action, ballots and protests. Workers are engaged in struggles at universities and colleges, the railways, the National Health Service, the energy and water utilities, together with air traffic controllers, packaging workers and defence industry workers. All these workers have bee...

Amid second wave of deaths: London bus drivers must form rank-and-file safety committees at all garages! Fifty-nine London bus workers have died from COVID-19 in less than a year—17 since December alone—according to new figures released by Transport for London (TfL). This catastrophic death toll, and the trauma and loss for loved ones left behind, is the outcome of corporate neglect and the ruthless “herd immunity” policy of Boris Johnson’s Conservative government that places profit b...