RMT continues fight for justice for City Link workers

Individual members’ claims for redundancy pay, notice pay, holiday pay, outstanding wages and unfair dismissal are being prepared by RMT lawyers.

In addition, collective claims for the failure by City Link to inform and consult over the dismissals are being prepared and are being taken into the ACAS procedures by the union. The failure to consult should mean that a protective award of up to 90 days is payable to the staff affected.

RMT is aware that the individual claims for members will be treated as “unsecured creditors” leaving the staff whose lives were wrecked in the planned and co-ordinated Christmas day folding of the company at the mercy of the administrators while Jon Moulton, and his outfit Better Capital, who pulled the plug, were careful to convert their stake into secured loans before the collapse – leaving them at the front of the queue for the distribution of assets.

The union is also aware that the value left in the wreckage of the company is rapidly being drained away in multi-million pound payments to the administrators themselves.

RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said:
“The fight for justice for the City Link workers goes on and RMT’s lawyers are preparing both individual and collective claims on behalf of our members caught up in this appalling corporate failure.
“Those responsible will never be allowed to forget the callous and cynical way that they set up the collapse of City Link to fall on Christmas day – extracting the maximum they could for themselves while wrecking thousands of lives and leaving a trail of unpaid debts to those who had flogged their guts out right up to the end of Christmas Eve.

“Now is the time for justice and to salvage what we can for the staff who paid a heavy personal price for this brutal exercise in bandit capitalism.”


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