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SCOTLAND’S struggling private rail operator will face further chaos next month, after workers announced industrial action yesterday.
Rail union RMT said a ban on overtime and rest-day working at ScotRail will come into force on October 10. The dispute centres on payments for rest-day working.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: “This dispute is about equality and justice across grades in the ScotRail workplace.
“It cannot be right that the company seem to value one group of workers over another. Their approach to the rest-day working payments, where they have only offered driver grades enhanced arrangements, is nothing short of discriminatory.”
No end date for the industrial action has been set.
Scotland’s most overcrowded trains were revealed yesterday when the Scottish Liberal Democrats published new research.
In first place is the 4.34pm from Edinburgh to Perth, which runs at 136 per cent of planned capacity. Second is the 8.07am from Neilston to Glasgow Central (123 per cent) and the 7.55am North Berwick to Haymarket train (119 per cent) comes third.
