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TRANSPORT union RMT has accused a rail catering company of pressuring members suffering from Covid-19 to attend disciplinary hearings after they raised health and safety concerns.
The issue at Rail Gourmet emerged after the firm’s Edinburgh depot had to close until further notice when 12 workers tested positive for the virus.
The rail union is already preparing to ballot members for strike action at the company’s London Paddington branch after a member of staff was suspended for raising similar fears for workers’ safety.
RMT warned bosses that national industrial action was a possibility if proceedings against staff were not stopped.
General secretary Mick Cash said the firm was “only interested in their loss of revenue and silencing hardworking staff who dare to raise genuine safety concerns.”
“Rail Gourmet would be better off spending its energy resolving health and safety concerns rather than hounding RMT members for raising them,” he said.
The firm said that an internal investigation into the validity of the claims made in Edinburgh was ongoing.
