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Railway workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a bitter dispute over jobs, pay and conditions, threatening massive disruption to the network in the coming weeks. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Network Rail and 15 train operators backed launching a campaign of industrial action.

train firms allegedly handed them "see-through" uniforms which show their bras.

Several demonstrations are set to take place on Friday (March 18) in response to to P&O Ferries “appalling” decision to sack 800 seafarers. The company blamed the move on losses of £100 million during the coronavirus pandemic.

MPs in Greater Manchester have reacted with fury after ferry giant P&O made 800 crew members redundant across its entire fleet for agency workers.

London Underground for two days next week.The RMT Union confirmed on Thursday (February 24) that its 10,000 members would strike next Tuesday (March 1) and Thursday (March 3) in response to what it sees as a threat to jobs and pensions.Talks aimed at averting the strike failed, according to the RMT.The strikes are planned to start at one minute past midnight on March 1 and March 3 respectively, and will each last 24 hours.Tube chiefs have warned commuters to expect “severe disruption across all Tube lines” with little or no service across the network.They’ve also warned that the disruption will have a knock on impact on Wednesday and Friday, when morning rush hour services are expected to also be “severely impacted”.RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “Our members will be taking strike action next week because a financial crisis at London Underground has been deliberately engineered by the Government to drive a cuts’ agenda which would savage jobs, services, safety and threaten their working conditions and‎ pensions. The sheer scale of that threat was confirmed in talks on Wednesday.“These are the very same transport staff praised as heroes for carrying London through covid for nearly two years, often at serious personal risk, who now have no option but to strike to defend their livelihoods.“The politicians need to wake up to the fact that transport staff will not pay the price for this cynically engineered crisis.

An environmental protest is to be led by transport workers who have accused the Scottish Government of a "betrayal" of their Cop26 climate ambitions with cuts to public services.

London tube strikes will be going ahead as planned bringing disruptions to five major lines, the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union have confirmed.Talks of the strike began because of disputes over pay and hours for drivers of the Night Tube, which was reopened after being suspended in March 2020 during the pandemic.The RMT's general secretary Mick Lynch said: "No one should underestimate the anger this issue has generated amongst drivers.

Nicola Sturgeon is being urged to personally intervene to resolve a rail dispute which could see staff strike during the COP26 climate change summit.

A train conductor and the train driver died in today's rail derailment in Scotland.

union RMT who claim hotel chiefs are using the coronavirus pandemic as a ‘cover’ for brutal job cuts.RMT say they’re ‘stepping up the fight’ as up to 80 jobs are at risk at the US President’s Scottish flagship hotel and golf resort in Ayrshire.Measures also include cuts to sick pay, pay rises, scrapping free meals for staff, temporarily reducing part-time hours and putting full-time workers on a four-day week ‘until the business is operating at pre-Covid 19 levels’.With the consultation period ending on August 16, decision day is looming for the ‘devastated’ 300-strong workforce.RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch claims that with the spike in staycations Trump Trunberry’s cuts aim to ‘jack up profits’ and are ‘nothing to do