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The scene on a section of track near Port Talbot after two railway workers died after being struck by a train on July 3
THE RMT has pledged to lead a rank-and-file fight for track workers’ safety, following the deaths of two employees near Port Talbot last week.
The union’s general secretary Mick Cash and assistant general secretary Mick Lynch attended the Bridgend branch last night to express their solidarity and sympathies with union members who knew Gareth Delbridge and Michael Lewis, who were hit and killed by a train last Wednesday.
Both men warned that there is a “systemic and corporate failure” with safety culture on the railway, and are calling for the ORR safety regulator to issue an urgent response regarding workers’ safety.
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