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Despite Network Rail staff
being hailed as heroes during
Covid-19 by the company and
government, it is now cynically
exploiting the crisis and
intends to introduce the
biggest attack on jobs,
conditions, safety and pay in
generations. Reforms which
will affect all grades.
Just some of the company’s
proposals are listed below.
More details on the company’s
proposals are contained within
an RMT Network Rail special
members’ bulletin which has
been sent to all RMT Network
Rail members.
•
An open-ended pay freeze
for all Network Rail staff
with massive effects on
earning power and
standard of living. The
company intends to make
the whole workforce
poorer.
•
Managed stations staff
moving to a ‘One Team;
concept, with unknown
effects on station staff
numbers, duties, terms &
conditions in both Network
Rail and the Train
Operating Companies.
•
Less staff carrying out far
more work, with less
control over work-life
balance.
•
Diluting safety standards
and importing more risk.
Network Rail intends to
take more chances with
railway safety in order to
save cash through cutting
maintenance cycles and
jobs.
•
Various reforms affecting
maintenance, including an
extension of risk-based
maintenance, a 50%
reduction in Maintenance
Scheduled Tasks and joint
working across
maintenance disciplines,
ending the current
departmental distinctions
such as S&T, OLE, P-WAY,
P&D etc.
•
Pooling of all Operative
grades.
•
More unsocial hours, more
night and weekend
working.
•
All of this would be
undertaken without the
commitment of No
Compulsory Redundancies
across all of Network Rail
NETWORK RAIL’S NASTY
NUMBERS
Despite launching this huge
attack on all Network Rail
members’ pay, conditions and
safety, it is business as usual
for Network Rail and the
massive private sector
profiteering that the company
and the government fund.
For instance, in the year to
July 2020, the company made
an operating profit of £2.3bn,
up 62% on the previous year.
Before the pandemic, profits
were growing, and they can be
expected to grow back as the
rail industry recovers. In fact, in
March 2021 the company said
there would be a ‘quick
bounce back’ from Covid-19.
RMT estimates that the
private Rolling Stock
Companies and Train
Despite Network Rail staff
being hailed as heroes during
Covid-19 by the company and
government, it is now cynically
exploiting the crisis and
intends to introduce the
biggest attack on jobs,
conditions, safety and pay in
Network Rail intends to
take more chances with
railway safety in order to
save cash through cutting
maintenance cycles and
jobs.
•
Various reforms affecting
maintenance, including an
For instance, in the year to
July 2020, the company made
an operating profit of £2.3bn,
up 62% on the previous year.
Before the pandemic, profits
were growing, and they can be
expected to grow back as the
rail industry recovers. In fact, in
March 2021 the company said
there would be a ‘quick
bounce back’ from Covid-19.
RMT estimates that the
private Rolling Stock
Companies and Train
NO CUTS AT NETWORK RAIL
CUT THEIR GREED, NOT YOUR JOB