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Lifeline Ferry report launched
Professor Findlay’s work, commissioned by the RMT, is a critique of the controversial ‘Project Neptune’ report on ferry governance by Ernst & Young for Transport Scotland. The findings are a stark reminder of the clear public interest in retaining CalMac...
Region: RMT Scotland
Tagged with: RMT, Mick Lynch, Ferry, Report, Lifeline Ferry, CalMac, Transport Scotland
RMT responds to stark and damning IPCC climate report
TRANSPORT Union RMT today responded to a stark and damning report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calling on the Government to wake up to the reality we are now living in and to take urgent and stringent...
Region: National
Tagged with: COP26, IPCC, Climate Report
RMT statement on Seafarer Workforce Report
SEAFARER Union RMT today responded to the International Chamber of Shipping and BIMCO’s Seafarer Workforce Report 2021. RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said: “This is a long overdue report, which again underlines the need to re-build our seafarer workforce. We welcome...
Region: National
Tagged with: International Chamber of Shipping, BIMCO, Seafarer Workplace Report 2021, Seafarers
RMT on new Bus report
Commenting on the report, which found that the UK’s privatised bus system is ‘failing passengers’ and ‘undermining rights’, RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said: “This report is completely right in its assessment that privatisation and deregulation has created a bus...
Region: National
Tagged with: Bus report, National Bus Strategy, Privatisation, Philip Alston
Britain's main rail union RMT responds to Williams Report
“This is a missed opportunity by the Government to make a clean break from the failures of the past that have left Britain's railways in the slow lane. “The Government talk about ending a generation of fragmentation but then leave...
Region: National
Tagged with: Williams Report, Rail Privatisation, Tory Government,
RMT report warns of plans to resuscitate rail privatisation
RAIL UNION RMT has released a new report which reveals the government and Keith Williams expected announcement of their intention to overhaul the privatised railway – badged as the ‘end of franchising’ – is likely to lead to more profiteering...
Region: National
Tagged with: Rail, Privatisation, report
RMT responds to Transport Focus Bus Report
Bus union RMT warned today that a toxic combination of private profiteering, localised cuts and the uncontrolled growth of services like Uber is killing off bus services. A passenger watchdog “Transport Focus” report today shows that the proportion of bus...
Region: National
Tagged with: transport focus, bus report, private bus companies, uber
RMT responds to Government Gibb Report "fit up"
"No wonder the Government have sat on the Gibb report for seven months. It's taken them that long to slice and fillet it into a document that they can spin up as an attack on the unions and the staff....
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: southern, southern rail, gtr, gibb report, dft, chris grayling, doo, driver only operation
RMT calls for urgent talks in Southern Rail safety dispute
RMT calls for urgent talks in Southern Rail safety disputes as ASLEF put overtime ban back on RMT General Secretary Mick Cash on ASLEF announcement yesterday evening; "This is a highly significant development and its about time Southern stopped treating...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: southern, southern rail, gtr, gibb report, doo, driver only operation
RMT demands immediate publication of "Gibb Report"
Rail union RMT today demanded that the Government immediately publish a detailed report into the basket-case Southern Rail franchise which has been kept under wraps by the Transport Department since the back end of last year. The report, commissioned in...
Region: South East and Anglia
Tagged with: gibb report, southern, southern rail, dft
Shaw Report opens door to new rail sell-off
Rail union RMT warned that today's Shaw Report on the future of Network Rail leaves the door open to Chancellor George Osborne to set up a "smash and grab" raid on some of Britain's last remaining publicly-owned rail assets as...
Region: National
Tagged with: shaw report, network rail
New Report Reinforces Case for Keeping CalMac Public
The report, commissioned by the CalMac union RMT, will launched in the Scottish Parliament today and reaches a number of conclusions that the union says makes a overwhelming case for keeping the operation of lifeline ferry services in the public...
Region: National
Tagged with: CalMac, Findlay Report
RMT hits back at “loaded” and “unreal” NAO report
Rail union RMT has hit back at a report on rail franchising from the National Audit Office today – Tuesday 24th November – which the union describes as loaded in favour of continued private profiteering, being light-years away from the...
Region: National
Tagged with: national audit office, rail franchising, report
RMT launches shock new report and new Maritime Manifesto
In order to reverse declining employment and training rates for UK seafarers, the Maritime Futures report makes a number of recommendations, including a different approach to minimum wage enforcement and reserving jobs on specified routes for UK seafarers on UK...
Region: National
Tagged with: maritime manifesto, maritime futures report,
RMT launches shock new report and new Maritime Manifesto
In order to reverse declining employment and training rates for UK seafarers, the Maritime Futures report makes a number of recommendations, including a different approach to minimum wage enforcement and reserving jobs on specified routes for UK seafarers on UK...
Region: National
Tagged with: maritime manifesto, maritime futures report
RMT responds to Passenger Focus report
“It is telling that satisfaction on the commuter routes into London, where there is a drive on to axe guards and station staff in the name of profit, is in free-fall and that should be enough to force these companies,...
Region: National
Tagged with: passenger focus, privatisation, tsgn, customer satisfaction report
Rail Safety Report Exposes Increase in Deaths
The report shows that:
“The trend in track workers being injured increased to its highest-level in seven years, with 79 workers suffering major injuries and 1,641 reported minor injuries. There were also three rail worker fatalities during the past year, subject to...
Region: National
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