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ANY threats to railway workers’ pension schemes will be met by national strike action, rail union leader Mick Cash warned today.

RMT general secretary Mr Cash said that workers were “deadly serious” about challenging any threat to their pension schemes.

Mr Cash’s intervention came as the Department for Transport (DfT) announced a ban on Stagecoach bidding on rail franchises this year.

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