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RAIL union RMT condemned “patronising” letters sent out to unsuccessful applicants for recent train driver vacancies as “an exercise in treating people like idiots” yesterday.
The rejection letter informs the reader that they should not “underestimate the role or its responsibilities” and if they wanted to reapply, they should “start by researching the role of driver.”
Over 21,000 people applied for just 100 trainee driver posts advertised by Abellio ScotRail.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash called on the company to apologise to every person who received the letters, which he said were “engineered to undermine an individual’s self-esteem.”
He said it was “no surprise that Abellio are one of those companies acting as cheerleaders for the government’s new raft of anti-trade union laws,” adding that it was “about time the Scottish government woke up to the union-busting and anti-worker nature of the outfit they awarded the Scotrail contract.”