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RMT will fiercely resist further attacks on trades unions announced by Truss
She will introduce minimum service levels on critical national infrastructure, introducing primary legislation in the first 30 days of Government, if she beats Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership election.
Other proposals include: Ensuring strike action has significant support from union...
Region: National
Tagged with: Liz Truss, Strike, Industrial Action, Tory Government, Transport Union, RMT
Tory Government P&O Ferries shame
The Second Reading of the Government’s Seafarers Wages Bill, the core element of the Department for Transport’s 9-point plan in response to P&O’s actions, will take place in the House of Lords later today. RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said:...
Region: National
Tagged with: P&O Ferries, Tory Government, Boycott P&O, D P World, Department for Transport, DfT, Seafarers Union, RMT,
RMT responds to MPs passing agency worker bill to break strikes
"The use of agency labour to break strikes is not only unethical and morally reprehensible; it is totally impracticable. Agency workers will not have the skill, training, or relevant competences to drive a train to do complex maintenance work on...
Region: National
Tagged with: Defend Rail Jobs Pay and Conditions, National Rail Dispute, Rail Strike, Agency Workers, Tory Government,
RMT on bus and local transport funding announcement
Responding to the Government announcement on bus and local transport funding RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said:
“This announcement of funding is a drop in the ocean compared to what our bus and local transport desperately needs after years of...
Region: National
Tagged with: Bus, Local Transport, Funding, Tory Government
Heroic cleaners being left behind again
RMT criticised new measures coming into force today which will mean those isolating with Covid will not get SSP from day one.
New government guidelines mean that people taking sick leave will only be entitled to SSP from day four....
Region: National
Tagged with: Justice For Cleaners, Atalian Servest, Churchill, SSP, Statutory Sick Pay, Covid-19
RMT reaction to two 'Green Freeport' sites for Scotland
Mick Lynch, RMT General Secretary said:
"Freeports are fatally flawed because they will be operated in private not public interests and it's sad to see the SNP Government fall for this confidence trick by Boris Johnson's ultra-capitalist Tories.
"England's Freeports...
Region: RMT Scotland
Tagged with: Green Freeport, SNP, Tory, Government, Freeport
RMT slams Government hypocrisy over levelling up
“With this government when it comes to transport it’s not levelling up, it's cutting up our network and driving down access to decent services. “With cuts to rail and metro projects and timetables and staff, and the scaling back of...
Region: National
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