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Jul 12 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Rail union RMT update on National Rail dispute: 🧵
The RMT has received an offer from Network Rail which our NEC will consider tomorrow morning...
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...It amounts to a real terms pay cut over the next two years and will involve cutting a third of all frontline maintenance roles and 50pc of all scheduled maintenance work...
...There will also be an expectation of unsocial hours and lower pay across the board...
...Network Rail have offered high level managers in bands 1-3 a more than 40% hike in return for adopting modest flexibility in comparison to RMT members...
...RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "Our NEC will have to make a decision on this offer tomorrow...
"But Network Rail and the train operating companies need to understand that RMT has done deals with both London Underground and recently Merseyrail that were well in excess of what our members are being offered here...
"Our members have lost thousands of pounds in earnings due to a pay freeze in recent years and they refuse to be short-changed again...

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"This is the latest step in a clampdown on democratic dissent which every trades unionist and democrat must oppose...
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Jul 11
Rail union RMT welcomes @ASLEFunion mandate for strike action 🧵
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Commenting on ASLEF joining the national rail dispute, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "We congratulate our friends in ASLEF for their superb ballot result and the huge mandate they have for strike action on the railways...
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Jun 29
In a grim turn of events, @networkrail boss Andrew Haines has attempted to weaponise the tragic death of a railway worker to undermine our national rail dispute. Our 20,000+ members are the experts in safety and have shown tremendous dignity throughout this dispute. 🧵⬇️
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"Andrew also knows that RMT is discussing many of his plans for modernisation in current talks, but he also needs to make written commitment of no compulsory redundancies - a guarantee that they had previously given for over a decade.”
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Jun 25
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"In many companies we have agreements that Sunday forms part of the working week and agreed provisions for rostering overtime for Sundays where the companies require the staff to work all of their contracted hours between Monday and Saturday with Sunday as extra hours.
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