TRAIN GUARDS on South West Trains and Wales & West have forced their companies to implement reductions in their working week by two hours, with no strings, in campaigns over the new year.
The result will be increases in the establishment for both companies as well as improved conditions for the guards.
In both cases industrial action ballots were necessary, but whilst SWT agreed to settle when the determination of the workforce became apparent, Wales & West only saw sense atter two days of industrial action.
Both days the strike was solid in all depots.
Management responded by bringing in stab supervisors from another rail company and by trying to victimise strike leaders.
But with the RMT refusing to enter into negotiations until all threats against individaats were lifted, Wales & forced to back down on all fronts.
It is clear that the privatised rail franchises are particularly vulnerable to this type of pressure, paradoxically in a way that the old British Rail was not.
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