RMT members across the country have voted overwheimingly for strike rail safety, In a majority of train operating companies ing for one-day strikes later this month. introduced railway Rule changes which transferred safety responsibilities from quard to driver. Whilst the driver the RMT feared that quards woul be left with little to do other than collect tickets and sell TUITES HITEIS Railtrack have been try ing to get these changes hrough for some vears Previous attempts had been stopped by a camDown of action oy ue RMT, but last year the union leadership reacted too siowly and the changes were introduced mounted. Now the RMT faces a battle to get the changes withdrawn. Raitrack admitted after the Lactroke Grove crash that it would have been impossibie to introduce context - not least because they gave responSIRIOS TO NO CRIS who were killed. The guard is still vital to the safety of the train, not just to the comfort of passengers. Untorunatel the RMIl leadership, rather than mmediately name dates for action. has given the operating companies and Railtrack a week s grace members have been wairthis issuc.
À policy of obfuscation ane coley of roni orcers has already made it hardes o win suppor RIME actiists will now be press. ng for concerted action at