CATERING FIGHT BACK

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: april 2013 :: RMTnews 12 O n board accidents, use of agency workers and organising catering staff were priority issues for the catering grades conference. EC member Daren Ireland said that agency workers on the railway should be brought in- house. “This is not a matter of putting worker against worker but bringing these vulnerable staff in-house,” he said. He said that the union had to do more to defend catering workers pointing out that TOCs like Arriva Trains Wales treated the grade as the ‘poor relatives’ in the industry. Derek England, Leeds City said that the union should be expanding union membership in the catering grades and representing them. “We need more political action to bring catering in- house. “MPs travel on trains and they should be told that on- board catering will be lost if CATERING FIGHT BACK A well-attended catering grades conference met in Weston Super Mare to discuss how to defend workers