AGENCY workers on Great Western Railway (GWR) have announced strike action against a “scandalous” shift change which they say will have them each working an extra 60 shifts a year.
Workers employed to clean new trains supplied by Hitachi by the subcontracting giant ISS will strike for two days from Thursday 11 July over the imposition of new shift patterns.
A ballot for strike action returned a 100 per cent Yes vote and they are demanding that the current work patterns be kept.
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