RMT members working on trains and in stations across the country held another strike on Friday 2 June, the latest in their long-running pay dispute.
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Rail workers should ensure that the strong workplace organisation that has been developed when they built support for their campaigns of industrial action is not dissipated...
Nearly all railway ticket offices in England are planned to close. Rail workers face redundancy and passengers will lose that service. A campaign to oppose the closures is starting.
Train operating companies are running a short consultation on plans to close railway ticket offices. Rail workers are campaigning in opposition.
Sustained campaigning has revived a Bristol rail line. The first of several new stations opened in July.
Protests have been taking place across Britain against plans to shut our railway ticket offices. The action is part of the RMT union’s continuing campaign “Save Ticket Offices”.
Rail workers are stepping up the fight to save ticket offices after the end of the sham consultation at the end of August.
The government is planning further cuts to the HS2 rail project. This sabotage puts engineering jobs at risk as well as undermining the transport benefits.
RMT denounces sale of Arriva bus and train operations by the German state railway to US private equity.
US private equity firm, I Squared Capital, has bought bus and rail operator Arriva in a deal worth about $1.69 billion, including debts.