Railway engineering staff are set to participate in a sequence of 48-hour strikes subsequent month as a consequence of a pay dispute.
The motion comes after the employees at infrastructure group Balfour Beatty overwhelmingly rejected the corporate’s supply of a 5.5% improve in pay.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will take strike motion between the 3-5 March, 10-12 March, and 17-19 March – with every of the walkouts beginning at 10pm on the Friday and ending at 10am on the Sunday.
“These highly skilled workers have had enough of not been offered a decent wage rise”, stated RMT common secretary Mick Lynch in an announcement on Saturday.
“The cost of living crisis has affected all workers and our members are not prepared to pay the price while the company enjoy huge revenues.”
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Balfour Beatty revamped £8bn in income final 12 months, RMT stated.
Mr Lynch added: “Balfour Beatty is a highly profitable company and they need to use some of their excess wealth to reward their workers properly.”
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Earlier this week, RMT revealed the subsequent part of strike dates, by which tens of hundreds of union members will take part between 16 March and 1 April.
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The union stated it had obtained “no new offers” from employers concerned within the rail dispute, having earlier rejected the phrases supplied by Network Rail and 14 practice operators on the grounds they “did not meet the needs of members on pay, job security or working conditions”.
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