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GOVERNMENT contractor Serco was slammed today for its “disgraceful” approach to industrial relations as the train operator saw its workers vote overwhelmingly for strike action.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers’ union (RMT) hit out at the outsourcing giant over the safety and wellbeing of workers on the Caledonian Sleeper service and the company’s “refusal to negotiate.”
RMT is in dispute with the firm over a lack of berths for rest periods and the company’s failure to address the fatigue brought on by shifts that can stretch to almost 16 hours.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street