31 January 2026
RMT Press Office:
RMT welcomed London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway services being brought under Great British Railways on Sunday but insisted outsourced workers must not be left behind.
RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: “Bringing these services back into public ownership is welcome but it is not right that outsourced staff will not enjoy the benefits of being brought into Great British Railways.
"The Labour government has committed to delivering the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation and that promise must now be honoured.
"Outsourced cleaning, catering, and other frontline jobs should be brought in-house, ending this super exploitation that has driven down pay, worsened conditions and led to huge amounts of money leaking out of the industry into shareholders pockets.
"A publicly owned integrated railway should directly employ the staff who keep it running, reinvesting money back into services instead of leaking it out in private profit to unscrupulous private contractors."
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