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Rail safety is at stake for all of us
The recent crash in Ohio goes to shows how dangerous the kind of cuts the rail companies and government are trying to push through here in Britain can be, writes MICK LYNCH, ahead of the annual RMT health and safety conference
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AROUND 170 safety reps will attend the annual RMT health and safety conference in York on February 21 and 22.
The conference takes place against a backdrop of Network Rail, London Underground and the train operating companies wanting to push through a jobs cull as they seek to take advantage of the Covid crisis to deliver a devastating short-term cuts agenda on rail on behalf of a government that wants to slash £2.5 billion from the industry.
RMT has been at the forefront of the current wave of industrial action, in taking 19 days of strike action to oppose these attacks — with more industrial action scheduled for March.
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