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A crane lifts the train carriage over the roof from where it was lying across two platforms at Potters Bar station north of London. Picture date: May 14, 2002
RAIL regulators share RMT’s concerns about Network Rail’s plan to “modernise” the industry by slashing thousands of safety-critical jobs, the transport union said today.
Following a meeting with the Office of Rail and Road, general secretary Mick Lynch slammed the state-run infrastructure maintenance firm’s proposals as a “catastrophe waiting to happen.”
The union, which is currently consulting its members on Network Rail’s latest pay offer, has repeatedly warned that plans to meet £400 million of Tory government-mandated cost savings are a “serious safety threat.”
Public ownership of Great British Railways has enormous potential to improve our railway network, but that can’t happen unless jobs, employee rights and union recognition is at the heart of the transition, argues MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ