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WORKERS at beleaguered Northern Rail are to stage another wave of strikes against the company’s plans to remove safety-critical guards from trains.
The firm’s operations are already in chaos because of its bungled introduction of new timetables, which has seen the number of cancellations and delays soar.
Now rail union RMT has accused the firm of planning to “shred the safety culture in the same way that they have shredded the timetables.”
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY