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« Reply #495 on: January 25, 2023, 20:40:18 »

I note that Swindon-Westbury is included too this time!
It is yes. Something that will bring at least a partial smile to a certain resident of Melksham.
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« Reply #496 on: January 26, 2023, 06:12:30 »

I note that Swindon-Westbury is included too this time!
It is yes. Something that will bring at least a partial smile to a certain resident of Melksham.

A step in the right direction - two round trips are timetabled, at 07:37 and 16:25 from Westbury, returning at 08:45 and 17:36 from Swindon.

I was initially reminded of the pre 2001, and 2006 to 2013 service of 2 trains each way per day, when real passenger numbers at Melksham were around 3,000 per annum. However, the "Two trains - running too early and too late" joke from those days does not really apply  - 08:45 and 17:36 from Swindon is a darned sight better than the 06:15 and 18:44 schedule from history.   Having just found the details, I am digesting.

Edit to add - on the GWR (Great Western Railway) published timetable for a Wednesday, services should leave Westbury at 05:17, 07:05, 07:37, 09:46, 12:17, 14:16, 16:25, 18:34 and 20:06 and Swindon at 06:11, 08:45, 11:05, 13:15, 15:14, 17:36, 18:52 and 20:45. Underlines are those remaining in the online timetable as I write.
 
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« Reply #497 on: January 26, 2023, 10:21:40 »

First trains in Cornwall on a strike day
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« Reply #498 on: January 29, 2023, 12:58:28 »

Not quite a poll of members though. Will those wishing to accept put their heads over the parapet in a Branch meeting?

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Mick Lynch: RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) members will decide whether to accept offer to end deadlock

‘It’ll be up to our members to decide, and they’ll inform the leadership,’ said RMT general secretary Mick Lynch.

Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union leader Mick Lynch has said its members will decide whether to accept an offer to end the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.

The RMT general secretary claimed the Rail Delivery Group’s (RDG(resolve)) offer is “very challenging”, adding: “I don’t know if our members would be prepared to accept it.”

But he stressed that members would be consulted over the coming days before the union’s leadership makes a decision, GB (Great Britain) News reported on Saturday.

Members of the RMT and the Aslef train drivers union are set to strike again on Wednesday and Friday.

Wednesday’s walkouts will come on a day of widespread industrial action, with teachers in England and Wales and around 100,000 civil servants among those set to strike.

On Saturday, Mr Lynch told GB News: “We got an offer last week, and train operating companies are now continuing in discussions with Network Rail.

“The offer that they’ve made is very challenging for our people.

“There are branch meetings happening all over the country, regional meetings, and we’ll get reports back from those meetings from negotiating officers about what our members think…

“So that will happen over the next 10 days or so and then we’ll make a decision about what we want to do with the offer.”

Under the offer, staff who are paid below a certain threshold will receive a guaranteed £1,750 in year one, ensuring that lower paid employees benefit most.

Pay would be backdated to the relevant 2022 pay award date with employers, enabling staff to benefit from a lump sum payment in the first available pay run.

But Mr Lynch said pay is not the main issue for members.

He added: “A lot of people find it really challenging to see the closure of every booking office in Britain.

“The clampdown on their terms and conditions is not going down well in the country amongst our members.

“Pay is not the issue that’s burning with our members.

“It’s their conditions and the way that they work.”

The RDG has said many of its proposals “simply extend” best practice already in place in parts of the network, including the creation of a new multi-skilled station role, new “station groups” so that staff are more able to move between stations to help passengers, for example where there are staff shortages, and the use of part-time contracts and flexible working rosters.

Current voluntary working arrangements on Sundays would be formalised, which the RDG said would help to reduce delays and disruption for passengers during weekend travel at a time when Sunday travel demand has increased significantly post-Covid.

A voluntary redundancy scheme will be made available for those who wish to leave the industry.

The contentious issue of expanding driver-only operation is not included in the new offer.

Mr Lynch said: “We’re just giving it a thorough discussion, because it took six months to get this offer.

“I’m not optimistic until our members tell me to be optimistic.

“What we’ve got is a really poor offer, the pay offer is less than half of the rate of inflation over these two years.

“I’m quite suspicious about what’s going on and I don’t know if our members would be prepared to accept it.

“It’ll be up to our members to decide, and they’ll inform the leadership.”

A Department for Transport spokesperson said: “This dispute has gone on for far too long and we encourage the RMT to put this new offer to its members.

“This fair and reasonable offer guarantees employees a pay rise in line with the private sector and no compulsory redundancies, while delivering the reforms needed to address the long-term challenges facing the industry.”

The RDG has been approached for comment.

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« Reply #499 on: February 01, 2023, 10:58:26 »

James Davis from GWR (Great Western Railway) was on BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Radio Berkshire this morning, he said that this time the strike action would affect local branch lines in the Thames Valley including Gunnislake to West Ealing Roll Eyes
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« Reply #500 on: February 01, 2023, 13:00:16 »

James Davis from GWR (Great Western Railway) was on BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Radio Berkshire this morning, he said that this time the strike action would affect local branch lines in the Thames Valley including Gunnislake to West Ealing Roll Eyes
Penzance running a St Ives and back service.
Plymouth is running a Gunnislake and back today it seems.
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« Reply #501 on: February 03, 2023, 18:37:25 »

From The Grauniad

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Network Rail makes revised offer to RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) in effort to end dispute
Union says it will consider details of offer after series of strikes over pay, jobs and working conditions

Network Rail has made a “newly revised” offer to Britain’s biggest rail workers’ union in an attempt to break the deadlock over a long-running dispute about pay, jobs and conditions.

Network Rail, which is responsible for track, signalling and other rail infrastructure in England, Scotland and Wales, said it had added some fresh proposals in the revised offer to the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT).

The union, which represents signallers, maintenance staff and other Network Rail workers, said its executive would consider the details of the offer.

An RMT spokesperson added: “We will now consult members through branch and regional meetings. An update on our next steps will be forthcoming in due course.”

Tim Shoveller, the chief negotiator for Network Rail, said in a message to staff that the company was continuing with its plans for modernising maintenance, adding: “We must press on with this regardless of the pay dispute. We believe it will help to create a safer, better railway and jobs. Local consultation is under way and is providing the local level detail people want.

“We want to introduce a standard 35-hour working week for everyone. We’re now committing to work with the unions to review contracts above a 35-hour week so we can agree a way forward.”

“We’ll introduce a better long-service award framework for general grades, which will be backdated to 2022. We’ll improve carers’ leave. If you are a registered carer, you will be able to transfer five days paid volunteering leave to five days paid carers’ leave.”

Network Rail said updated elements of the offer included an increase in London allowances for those who are on or move on to different contracts.

It said it was offering a minimum uplift of a consolidated £1,750, or a 5% increase (whichever is greater) up to a maximum of £3,500, to the annual base rates of pay backdated to 1 January 2022, and a 4% increase to the annual base rates of pay effective from January 2023.

Over the two years, this adds up to an increase of between 9.2% to 14.4%, more for those on the lowest salaries, said Network Rail.

There was also a commitment to no compulsory redundancies until January 2025, a 75% leisure travel discount for employees and their families, a 75% price reduction on employees’ season tickets and an opportunity to sell 10 days of leave if any is carried over from 2022.

Apprentices will see a “big increase” to their pay, backdated to April 2022, Network Rail added.

The RMT has held a series of strikes over the past few months in its dispute with Network Rail, a row that is separate to the one with train operators.

The union’s dispute with Network Rail is separate to the train drivers’ row with rail operators, which led to a strike on Wednesday.
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« Reply #502 on: February 10, 2023, 15:51:46 »

RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) rejects “dreadful” new offers from Network and train companies. So that’s a ‘no’ then  Sad

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64600975
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« Reply #503 on: February 10, 2023, 16:52:12 »

RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) rejects “dreadful” new offers from Network and train companies. So that’s a ‘no’ then  Sad

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The RMT rail union has rejected pay offers from Network Rail and the Rail Delivery Group (RDG(resolve)) in a blow to any hopes that the long-running dispute was close to reaching its end.

Network Rail and the RDG said the deals are their "best and final" offers.

But RMT boss, Mick Lynch, described them as "dreadful".

The rejection was made by the union's national executive committee but the industry and government want the offers to be put to a members' vote.

And how can that gap be bridges??
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« Reply #504 on: February 10, 2023, 17:38:06 »

RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) rejects “dreadful” new offers from Network and train companies. So that’s a ‘no’ then  Sad

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The RMT rail union has rejected pay offers from Network Rail and the Rail Delivery Group (RDG(resolve)) in a blow to any hopes that the long-running dispute was close to reaching its end.

Network Rail and the RDG said the deals are their "best and final" offers.

But RMT boss, Mick Lynch, described them as "dreadful".

The rejection was made by the union's national executive committee but the industry and government want the offers to be put to a members' vote.

And how can that gap be bridges??

Letting the RMT membership have a say might be a start.
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« Reply #505 on: February 10, 2023, 17:43:21 »


 Staff earning less than £30,000 it was not a dreadful offer, approx 11%  with back-pay for 2022.
  A lot of RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) members did not get to vote as it was not a postal ballot, but an open vote by social media I believe.
 
 
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« Reply #506 on: February 10, 2023, 17:59:02 »

Staff earning less than £30,000 it was not a dreadful offer, approx 11%  with back-pay for 2022.
  A lot of RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) members did not get to vote as it was not a postal ballot, but an open vote by social media I believe.
 

For the vast majority of members, it was not the pay offer that was the problem, but the 'reforms' that went with it.

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The RMT union’s National Executive Committee has carefully considered the responses it has received since inviting branches, regional councils and representatives to submit their views on the offer tabled last week by Network Rail. Your NEC» (National Exhibition Centre - about) has now taken the following decision:

“This NEC notes that that following widespread consultation and debate across the membership:

responses were received from over 60 Branches
300 of our workplace representatives responded
an online meeting was held with over 100 train operating representatives

The overwhelming conclusion from this mass consultation is that the proposals from the RDG(resolve) are entirely unacceptable and should be rejected.

The proposals include the closure of all Ticket Offices, job cuts and detrimental attacks to our members current terms and conditions, along with the creation of a two-tier workforce.

This NEC will not accept this poor pay offer and the carving up of hard-fought terms and conditions of our rail worker members.

Therefore, the General Secretary is instructed to seek further meetings with the Rail Delivery Group setting out a clear position that this National Executive Committee rejects the proposals in their entirety and to make clear this offer and its format is unacceptable to our members.
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« Reply #507 on: February 10, 2023, 18:44:35 »

Lynch now seeking an "unconditional" pay offer.

 BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) News - RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) union rejects latest offers in rail dispute
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64600975
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« Reply #508 on: February 10, 2023, 18:50:34 »

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The RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) said it was seeking "an unconditional pay offer, a job security agreement and no detrimental changes being imposed on members terms, conditions and working practices".

Not a hope....the best will be nothing % & no changes.
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« Reply #509 on: February 10, 2023, 19:34:45 »

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The RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) said it was seeking "an unconditional pay offer, a job security agreement and no detrimental changes being imposed on members terms, conditions and working practices".

Not a hope....the best will be nothing % & no changes.

To be brutally honest, many would accept just that if it was that or the current offer.
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