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RMT warns any raise to state pension age will be met with direct action

RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey described any raise to the pension age as not ‘just cruel and unnecessary, it’s a slap in the face’.

Evening Standard

Tube drivers reject TfL four-day week offer as threat of strikes grows

Members of the RMT union voted against the plans, claiming an extra day off could ‘significantly impact’ the working lives of staff

Evening Standard

Union highlights claims of staff shortages at railway ticket offices

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT ) said there was understaffing at a number of stations on the West Coast mainline served by Avanti.

The Independent UK

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New RMT leader Eddie Dempsey to celebrate by playing bingo at local social club

Mr Dempsey has been an RMT member for 20 years.

Evening Standard

New leader of the RMT promises ‘business as usual’ for the union

Eddie Dempsey is taking over from Mick Lynch, who is retiring.

Evening Standard

Urgent question on railways chaos sends the Tories running for the hills

As frustration builds over failing services, the government accepted something must be done. They just don’t know what

The Guardian - UK

Royal Mail and CWU trade accusations as strike turns increasingly bitter

Union says bosses ‘goading’ workers while managers demand CWU intervenes to end picket line ‘intimidation’

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Fears over Christmas strikes as rail union threatens to 'get creative'

Industrial action could be set to continue throughout autumn and into winter

Wales Online

Two rail strikes will happen in one week as workers walk out on July 27 and 30

A walkout on July 30 by train drivers from Aslef will happen three days after separate strikes by the RMT union over pay, conditions and job cuts - leading to serious disruption duringthe Commonwealth Games

Daily Mirror

New rail strike announced across 14 operators later this month

The RMT union will stage another 24-hour walkout on Wednesday 27 July

Wales Online

New rail strike date announced in summer of disruption for train passengers

The RMT union will stage another 24-hour walkout on Wednesday 27 July - after three separate days of action last month - after issues over pay, conditions and maintenance job cuts were unresolved

Daily Mirror

Train drivers using incontinence products due to lack of breaks, says union boss

‘Tena products’ being deployed as Covid is used as excuse to ‘decimate’ conditions, select committee told

The Guardian - UK

Rail unions accuse ministers of blocking pay deals

‘The strike action is the fault of this government and the employers, and not the workers,’ says Aslef general secretary

The Independent UK

RMT ‘in no rush’ to call further strikes this month after crippling walkouts

A rail workers’ union has said it is “not in any rush” to call for further strike action in July following a series of walkouts last week.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Striking hospital workers turn up at RMT rally in show of support for rail staff

Staff at St George’s Hospital in Tooting Hill, London, who are striking over a pay dispute joined the RMT rally at King’s Cross St Pancras.

The Independent UK

Inflation sparks global wave of protests for higher pay, aid

As food costs and fuel bills soar, inflation is plundering people’s wallets, sparking a wave of protests and workers’ strikes around the world

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps is ‘a snake-oil salesman,’ says union boss

Eddie Dempsey hinted at a warm relationship with employers, saying management are conducting themselves ‘with grace’

Daily Mirror

Holidays in jeopardy as Eurostar cancels 41 trains next week due to UK rail strikes

Some train services connecting London with Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris have been scrapped next week due to rail strikes called for by the RMT and other unions

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National rail strike June 2022: RMT leadership on why union has not called off strike

The RMT also accused Boris Johnson and the Government of using the June 21, 23 and 25 train strike as a 'political football'

Daily Mirror

Rail union leader says blackouts a 'realistic possibility' in biggest strike in a generation

In an interview with the Mirror, RMT chief Mick Lynch said walkouts could begin in mid-June and refused to rule out a general strike - saying Tory ministers want to 'shut virtually every ticket office in Britain'

Bristol Post

'Biggest rail strike in British history' planned over pay concerns

"Seven of the highest-paid civil servants in the country are Network Rail bosses"

Evening Standard

MP attacks RMT union leader who ‘supported Putin separatist’

Mr Dempsey met Mozgovoy, head of the pro-Russian “Ghost Brigade” in Luhansk, when he visited the area on a “humanitarian” mission in 2015

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