Network Rail staff to strike March 25, 2010 BRITAIN’S railways are set to descend into chaos in the four days immediately after Easter, after rail union RMT yesterday called a crippling national rail strike for the first time in 16 years. Strikes are set to go ahead on each of four days between 6am and 10am and between 6pm and 10pm, starting on [...]
Tube staff threaten strike March 24, 2010 LONDON Underground has been given until the end of today to withdraw plans to axe 800 jobs or workers will walk out of the job. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, which is representing workers facing job cuts said it will call a ballot for strike if management doesn’t comply. “We have already warned [...]
Network Rail, British Gas set to strike March 23, 2010 NETWORK Rail and British Gas joined the ranks of British Airways (BA) yesterday after staff at the two companies voted in favour of a strike action. Network Rail sat down with the Rail, Maritime & Transport (RMT) union yesterday to come to an agreement over a proposal by the rail operator to cut 1,500 maintenance [...]
Rail union votes for strike March 19, 2010 RAILWAY signal workers have voted to go on strike in action which threatens to throw easter travel plans into chaos. The Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said 54 per cent of its members had backed strike action over redundancies. A spokesman for the RMT leader Bob Crow is still willing to negotiate with Network [...]
Network Rail staff to vote on a strike March 10, 2010 NETWORK Rail maintenance workers will vote today on whether they will take industrial action and launch the largest rail strike in 16 years. Up to 12,000 maintenance crew will vote this morning on a possible strike, according to a spokesperson from the National Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Union, which is representing the workers. Similarly, [...]
Tube strike over Jubilee line pay row January 21, 2010 LONDON Underground maintenance workers on the Jubilee Line are to stage a series of 24-hour walkouts in a row over pay. Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) employed by Alstom on the Jubilee line will walk out from 7.29pm next Wednesday. They will also strike each Sunday evening at the same time [...]
NEWS | IN BRIEF December 14, 2009 London Array in £2bn cash boost Germany’s E.ON, Denmark’s state-owned group DONG Energy and Masdar said yesterday they had signed contracts worth nearly €2bn (£1.3bn) for work on London Array’s offshore wind project. Masdar is an Abu Dhabi green energy investment firm. The companies said work for first phase of the project would start early [...]
Further tube strikes threatened October 27, 2009 Tube drivers on the Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City lines will be balloted for strike action, it emerged yesterday, in a dispute over new timetables. Union bosses are meeting today to approve a ballot for the 250 drivers at Neasden depot, which serves the two lines. The threat brings yet more bad news for commuters, [...]
CUTS WARNING October 5, 2009 RAILWAY maintenance cuts could lead to another crash on the scale of the Paddington disaster, union bosses warned yesterday. The RMT said “massive” cuts to track and signalling repairs would put thousands of passengers at risk. The warning came on the 10th anniversary of the crash that killed 31 and that resulted in the break-up [...]
Tomorrow’s DLRStrike called off September 28, 2009 The planned 48-hour DLR strike by the RMT union due to begin tomorrow has been called off. The union had threatened a walk out over proposed changes in rosters at the control centre in Poplar. Talks were held over the weekend and the union Serco said an agreement had been reached. Managing director of Serco [...]