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As predicted by this blog on sunday, the FGW strike has been suspended pending further talks with FGW managment.
FGW has agreed not to use managers to drive or work trains as guards.
We are reciving reports that FGW managment have admitted they are wrong and are looking to meaningfull discussions. The Strike should be called off on Tuesday. Stay tuned for updates.
Press Release from RMT
MORE THAN 600 RMT guards and train drivers at First Great Western will strike for 48 hours from a minute after midnight on January 20 after voting overwhelmingly for action in disputes over breakdowns in industrial relations and the use of managers to guard and drive trains.
The RMT executive this afternoon also agreed to ballot the union’s more than 1,500 other members at the company over similar issues.
Bob Crow said “After considering reports from our people on the ground in First Great Western the RMT executive agreed that our guard and driver members will strike on Sunday January 20 and Monday January 21,” general secretary Bob Crow said this afternoon. First Great Western have angered our members across the company with heavy handed and confrontational management and by undermining our members’ jobs.
We have also therefore agreed to put in place a ballot of more than 1,500 RMT members in all other grades across the company and to urge them to vote for action over what has become a comprehensive breakdown in industrial relations.”
In separate ballots that closed today, drivers voted by 62 (81.6%) to 14 (18.4%) to strike, and by 67 (88.2%) to 9 (11.8%) for action short of strike, while guards voted by 229 (71.1%) to 93 (28.9%) to strike, and by 289 (89.5%) to 34 (10.5%) for action short of strike. The union’s executive will meet shortly to consider what action to call.
Midland Mainline are still proceeding with the strike this Thursday. This meens that services again will be severly reduced and some stations will not recive any MML services.
The following trains are scheduled to be the only services to run.
Southbound
These services will call at Long Eaton, Loughborough, Leicester, Market Harborough, Kettering, Wellingborough, Bedford, Luton Airport Parkway and London St. Pancras.
Northbound
These services will call at Luton Airport Parkway, Bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering, Market Harborough, Leicester, Loughborough, Long Eaton and Derby.
No Midland Mainline services will be running to / from Leeds, Wakefield Westgate, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Nottingham, Beeston and Luton on Thursday 1st November.Further industrial action is planned for 8 November. Details of the service disruption will be issued when available.
This is somthing posted on another railway related website.
The guard has not been reinstated,he was offered £1000 and no job,this was rejected,he was offered £5000 and no job,this was also rejected,he then went to the RMT and told them he did’nt want his job back and he did’nt want any more action taken that would lose his fellow men/women money through strike action.
Many members at Colchester and Claction feel that the RMT have really stiched them up and bowed into corporate pressure. Lots of members have also resigned their membership of the RMT for failing to protect them and continue the pressure on ‘one’.
Several tube lines have started to get back to normal, following the strikes of recent days. However some lines are still closed. TfL state that they will try and have all lines back to normal towards the end of day start of tomorrow.
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