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More rail workers to be balloted on industrial action

MORE rail workers are to ballot on strike action over jobs, pay and safety.

Members of clerical and professional union the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) working at Greater Anglia railways begin voting on June 29.

TSSA is already balloting members at Network Rail, Cross Country, East Midlands Railway, West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, Northern, LNER, C2C, Great Western Railway (GWR) and Trans Pennine Express in an escalating dispute across the railway.

The union said the dispute “is caused by the government’s determination to restrict the ability of employers to make offers on pay and job security.”

TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said: “Our members at Greater Anglia are seeking basic fair treatment in the teeth of a crippling cost-of-living crisis.

“Rail workers were hailed as heroes in the pandemic and now they deserve a real-terms pay rise which keeps pace with inflation, rather than shouldering the burden of the Tories’ economic meltdown.”

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