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RAIL workers in Scotland and the East Midlands continued strike action at the weekend in disputes over pay and safety.
Rail union RMT said its members’ six-month battle for “pay justice and equality” at Scotrail is now today’s longest-running industrial dispute in Britain.
And train managers at East Midlands Railway are staging strikes over pay, working conditions and safety after bosses cut staff numbers on trains.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “For six months now our members have stood strong on Scotrail in this fight for pay justice and equality and they are as united now as they were right at the start of what we believe is now Britain’s longest running industrial disputes.”
He said that strike action in the East Midlands was “rock solid.”
“This company should get out of the bunker and end its assault on the safety of its passengers and the working conditions of its train crew,” he said.
