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Rail strike after Easter for four days - EDIT 1ST APRIL - STRIKE CALLED OFF!
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Rail workers are to take four days of strike action immediately after Easter in a bitter row over jobs and working practices, threatening the worst disruption for 16 years.
Thousands of members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) employed by Network Rail will take action from Tuesday April 6, sparing Easter holiday travellers.
The RMT said its 5,000 members working as signallers will strike between 6am and 10am and between 6pm and 10pm on April 6,7,8 and 9.
The union's 12,000 NR maintenance workers, and TSSA's 800 members working as supervisors, will stage an all-out strike from 6am on April 6 to 11.59pm on April 9.
Rail workers will also ban overtime and rest-day working for the duration of the strike.
Telegraph.co.uk
Thousands of members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) employed by Network Rail will take action from Tuesday April 6, sparing Easter holiday travellers.
The RMT said its 5,000 members working as signallers will strike between 6am and 10am and between 6pm and 10pm on April 6,7,8 and 9.
The union's 12,000 NR maintenance workers, and TSSA's 800 members working as supervisors, will stage an all-out strike from 6am on April 6 to 11.59pm on April 9.
Rail workers will also ban overtime and rest-day working for the duration of the strike.
Telegraph.co.uk
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This is awful news for my family. I'm due to travel up to Edinburgh on 6 Apr, returning the 9th...this is totally going to ruin things if it goes ahead.
Anyone know what happens to tickets - I've paid out over £150 for tix, will I get a refund?0 -
Pinklepurr wrote: »This is awful news for my family. I'm due to travel up to Edinburgh on 6 Apr, returning the 9th...this is totally going to ruin things if it goes ahead.
Anyone know what happens to tickets - I've paid out over £150 for tix, will I get a refund?
Only if you have insurance.I was born too late, into a world that doesn't care
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Before this is sensationalised, remember only 52% voted for strike action - there will still be plenty of staff about running as much as they can, and the signalling staff strike will cause large amounts of disruption, with stock in the wrong places, but they are only four hours long. It can also be called off yet too.0
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iamana1ias wrote: »Only if you have insurance.
How can that be fair? You've paid for a service you are not going to get, through no fault of your own. I have a ticket for 6th too, and have just re-booked for 5th (lucky to get one) but I will be bluddy annoyed if they won't refund the 6th ticket if the strike goes ahead. (If it doesn't my OH can use it, so nothing lost there).
I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe
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Pinklepurr wrote: »This is awful news for my family. I'm due to travel up to Edinburgh on 6 Apr, returning the 9th...this is totally going to ruin things if it goes ahead.
Anyone know what happens to tickets - I've paid out over £150 for tix, will I get a refund?
There is some MSE News advice on this HERE.There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...0 -
According to the website you will get a full refund regardless if you have insurance or not!TRYING hard to be a good money saver :rolleyes:0
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grr, not sure how exactly I'm going to get to work, unless I come in for 6 every dayYes Your Dukeiness0
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The first national rail strike for 16 years was today called off after a successful last-ditch appeal to the High Court by Network Rail.
Hundreds of signal workers from the Rail Maritime and Transport union had been due to down tools from Tuesday to Friday next week, inflicting chaos on millions of travellers.
But Judge Mrs Justice Sharp, sitting at the High Court, today upheld a claim by Network Rail that the ballot had been riddled with errors and issued an injunction.
The RMT was left with no choice but to cancel the strike, which coincided with the end of the Easter break.
However, further action is likely to be called in the coming weeks.
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