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RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: november/december 2011 :: RMTnews
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THOUSANDS RAIL
AGAINST MCNULTY
Rail workers and their supporters hold
protests across the country against
plans to further fragment the industry
Rail unions joined up with
passenger groups and
community supporters in
October for a mass rally and
lobby of parliament in the
campaign to stop the
government from implementing
the recommendations of the
McNulty Rail Review.
As part of RMT’s ongoing
campaign against McNulty the
union is also organising a
campaigning day of action on
December 15.
The government has deferred
publication of its rail ‘command
paper’ to the New Year due to
the moving of former Transport
Secretary Phillip Hammond to
the Ministry of Defence in the
wake of the Liam Fox scandal,
but unions are keeping up the
campaigning pressure.
McNulty’s core proposals
include:
• Axing more than 600 ticket
offices, de-staffing stations
and turning the network into
a criminal paradise.
• Throwing guards off all trains
and compromising safety and
security on services across the
country
• Jacking up fares and offering
train operators even longer
“gold-plated” franchises and
even more opportunity to
mug the travelling public
• Cutting maintenance and
lining up infrastructure for a
return to the lethal cocktail of
conditions under Railtrack
that led to Hatfield and
Potters Bar.
• Ignoring the cheap and
efficient option of returning