UK Rail Workers Will Launch 4-Day Strike To Protest Job Cuts

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Submitted by Doug Cunningham on March 25, 2010 - 4:51pm
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Commuters in the UK may be waiting longer than usual for the train. Rail workers have announced plans for a 4-day strike starting April 6 to protest proposed funding cuts that could see 1500 maintenance jobs slashed. The Rail Maritime and Transport union says such cuts would be a blow to rail safety.

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1. Rail strike plans cancelled after court injunction

A planned national rail strike by the RMT union has been called off after it was challenged in the High Court.

Network Rail was granted an injunction after it alleged discrepancies in the RMT's ballot for industrial action.

It means a four-day strike over job cuts and working hours, due to start next Tuesday, will not go ahead.

Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT, said the judgement was "an attack on the whole trade union movement" and the executive would recommend a re-ballot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8598456.stm