A massive national rail strike could take place soon amid concerns about how workers are being paid. The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers is preparing to ballot members over what could be the biggest rail strike in British history.
RMT senior assistant general secretary Eddie Dempsey said it is preparing to ballot members over pay freezes and safety standards. In an interview with GB News today (April 21), he said: “This dispute’s been a long time in the making. We've been through the pandemic period where our members made lots of changes to their working practices and worked right through a pandemic to keep the country moving and many of our members have had pay freezes.
“Now some of them are in the third year of a pay freeze. We've changed how we work, we've made lots of sacrifices to help the railways going and we've been working with the industry in the rail industry recovery group, putting forward ideas on how to help the industry recover.
