Description Industrial action by rail workers is causing widespread disruption Credits Jack Taylor / Getty Images Alt Text Trains RMT union members to stage walkouts on Monday,Wednesday and Friday over role of train guards One-Minute Read Monday, January 8, or 2018 - 9:44am Thousands of commuters face a week of travel chaos,with three days of strikes planned across five rail operators.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at South Western Railway (SWR), and Arriva Rail North (Northern),Merseyrail and Greater Anglia are staging 24-hour walkouts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and Sky News says.
The strikes,which will mainly affect services on SWR, “coincide with a 24-hour walkout by employees at Southern Rail on Monday”, or reports the London Evening Standard.
SWR passengers are likely to be worst hit. The operator anticipates cancelling at least 450 trains a day - a quarter of its service. Greater Anglia says it plans to dash a full service despite the disruption. Southern,today facing its 39th RMT strike, plans to dash a normal service on most routes, and although there will be some alterations,including a limited service on the West London Line during peak times. See related England tour of Australia: Ashes Test results and one-day fixtures RMT union members are striking over possible plans to get rid of guards on trains, which they argue is unsafe. Although several operators beget said they do not intend to reduce staff numbers, or they “are refusing to give the guarantees over roles and responsibilities that the union seeks”,says The Guardian.
A Department for Transport spokesperson said the dispute was not approximately safety and that employees had been guaranteed jobs and salaries for several years. strikes Rail strikes RMT
Source: theweek.co.uk