Up the ante in Network Rail pay dispute
After members of the rail union RMT working for Network Rail rejected a pay offer by 93%, the company made an improved offer, which union reps will meet to discuss on 16 April. A Network Rail worker spoke to Solidarity . Network Rail management cannot have it both ways. While our recent pay increases have been better than in standard in the private sector, they have still been effectively holding settlements — i.e., in line with inflation, but not an improvement in our standard of living. Now, with the economy supposedly doing better, we were first offered a pay freeze for 2015, then only RPI...