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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 been designated as essential to the basic functioning of society during the pandemic, consistently risk...