RMT report reveals cost of Network Rail's ‘catastrophic’ maintenance reforms
THE devastating human and operational cost of Network Rail’s “catastrophic” maintenance reforms were laid bare in report by RMT union today.
The Post-Implementation Review drew from more than 6,000 members’ experiences of the Modernising Maintenance programme, which halved the number of maintenance staff to save £100 million, part of the previous Tory government’s £2 billion funding cuts to the railways.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said the programme was “an act of vandalism on Britain’s railway infrastructure and workforce.”
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