Health and Safety

Refusing To Work On Safety Grounds

Rail workers know that our employers will risk life and limb (ours, not theirs!) to keep the trains running and the cash coming in. We can not trust them to protect us at work - we have to rely on ourselves.

In the first century of the railway industry, unsafe conditions killed and injured...

New Year's on the new line...

Elizabeth line bosses are scrambling around for staff to volunteer for the New Year’s Eve night service. The current offer on the table for staff to work between midnight and 07:00 hours is the usual Sunday rate (time-and-a-quarter) plus a £100 bonus.

This in effect works out just shy of double pay...

Wrong Routes

We've written elsewhere about reasons for drivers not to cross RMT picket lines but to add another to the list, this image shows a mere five-hour snapshot from Network Rail's incident database. In that short time, nine wrong routes were offered by scab signallers. That's nine drivers put at risk of...

Boots on the train

From Notts Off The Rails:

As if catering staff pushing trolleys didn’t have enough to put up with management are now insisting that they wear uncomfortable boots not trainers. Through experience RG staff know what footwear works for them and as long as they meet the safety standards why would you...

Another Near Miss?

In January, two track workers narrowly missed being hit by a train near Weston-super-Mare. While carrying out vegetation clearance, they cut down a tree that accidentally fell on the line. They were attempting to move the tree when a 95 mph Cross Country train approached them. They moved out of the...

Don’t sit down

From Notts Off The Rails:

Heartless gate line managers are insisting there will be no stools provided for staff who have injuries that would heal better if they were able to sit down regularly during their shift. Apparently the risk assessment says no but what about the risk to the long term health...

EMR 1 ORR 3

From Notts Off The Rails:

You’d have thought that having been told 6 months ago by the ORR that shunter lone working wasn’t safe EMR would have put a stop to it but they haven’t. On night shifts, when there are supposed to be 3 shunters on duty there often aren’t. How difficult is it for the...

RHL Attack, Management must do more

From Notts Off The Rails:

The shocking assault on a Senior Conductor on the RHL is the latest in a depressingly long line of anti-social behaviour. And as if that wasn’t bad enough it turns out that the CCTV wasn’t working, not unusual, some units don’t even have them fitted, and no witness...

Avanti West Coast cleaners strike against poverty pay

RMT cleaners on Avanti West Coast struck again from 10-12 March, demanding improved pay from their employer, the contractor Atalian Servest.

The cleaners are paid £9.68 per hour, less than the Real Living Wage (£9.90 outside of London and £11.05 in London). Atalian Servest's latest pay offer...

Northern: Union takes a stand

The ASLEF drivers' Company Council at Northern appears to have finally got over its love affair with the company with the assistance of the new District 4 Full Time Officer. The union had asked the company to reinstate a few relatively simple Covid safety measures to shield members from the soaring...

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