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The Latest Breaking News from Eddie Dempsey

New rail strike date announced in summer of disruption for train passengers

The RMT union will stage another 24-hour walkout on Wednesday 27 July - after three separate days of action last month - after issues over pay, conditions and maintenance job cuts were unresolved

Daily Mirror

Train drivers using incontinence products due to lack of breaks, says union boss

‘Tena products’ being deployed as Covid is used as excuse to ‘decimate’ conditions, select committee told

The Guardian - UK

Rail unions accuse ministers of blocking pay deals

‘The strike action is the fault of this government and the employers, and not the workers,’ says Aslef general secretary

The Independent UK

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RMT ‘in no rush’ to call further strikes this month after crippling walkouts

A rail workers’ union has said it is “not in any rush” to call for further strike action in July following a series of walkouts last week.

Evening Standard

Striking hospital workers turn up at RMT rally in show of support for rail staff

Staff at St George’s Hospital in Tooting Hill, London, who are striking over a pay dispute joined the RMT rally at King’s Cross St Pancras.

The Independent UK

Inflation sparks global wave of protests for higher pay, aid

As food costs and fuel bills soar, inflation is plundering people’s wallets, sparking a wave of protests and workers’ strikes around the world

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps is ‘a snake-oil salesman,’ says union boss

Eddie Dempsey hinted at a warm relationship with employers, saying management are conducting themselves ‘with grace’

The Independent UK

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Holidays in jeopardy as Eurostar cancels 41 trains next week due to UK rail strikes

Some train services connecting London with Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris have been scrapped next week due to rail strikes called for by the RMT and other unions

Daily Mirror

National rail strike June 2022: RMT leadership on why union has not called off strike

The RMT also accused Boris Johnson and the Government of using the June 21, 23 and 25 train strike as a 'political football'

Chronicle Live

Rail union leader says blackouts a 'realistic possibility' in biggest strike in a generation

In an interview with the Mirror, RMT chief Mick Lynch said walkouts could begin in mid-June and refused to rule out a general strike - saying Tory ministers want to 'shut virtually every ticket office in Britain'

Daily Mirror

'Biggest rail strike in British history' planned over pay concerns

"Seven of the highest-paid civil servants in the country are Network Rail bosses"

Bristol Post

MP attacks RMT union leader who ‘supported Putin separatist’

Mr Dempsey met Mozgovoy, head of the pro-Russian “Ghost Brigade” in Luhansk, when he visited the area on a “humanitarian” mission in 2015

Evening Standard

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