RMT Strike halted by courts
UK businesses have been offered a break today as the High Court applied the gavel to the RMT union’s planned rail strike. Network Rail made the legal challenge in a bid to stop disruption to rail services; a tactic likened to that adopted of the BA bosses in tackling their own union’s strike plans.
The injunction was granted after National Rail alleged discrepancies in the union’s ballot for industrial action. As with the BA injunction, this will likely be viewed as a temporary setback by the RMT but it does give Gordon Brown some breathing room on the announcement of the General Election (widely specualted to coincide with the first of the planned strike days).
The RMT maintains that proposed job cuts and changes to their member’s maintenance schedules would affect rail safety.
