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ENGINEERS who maintain and repair Britain’s rail network are to ballot on strike action over pay, their union said yesterday.
The 250 engineers work for Network Rail, an “arm’s length” company wholly owned by the government.
Their union, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), said the strike ballot would be carried out “in the next few weeks” and that if the engineers back industrial action there could be disruption on the rail network by the end of August.
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