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Guards, revenue protection inspectors and retail staff in the RMT union at One railway in north Essex struck last Saturday and Monday of this week, in support of an unfairly dismissed colleague.

Over 2,600 members of the RMT and TSSA rail workers’ unions are currently balloting for strike action over threats to jobs and conditions at the failed Metronet consortium on London Underground.

A strike by RMT rail workers' over safety on the Bakerloo line on London Underground severely hit services on the line on Thursday and Friday of last week. The strike lasted for 24 hours.

A strike by 400 signallers and supervisors working for Network Rail in Scotland scheduled for Friday has been called off by the RMT after the company tabled a further revised offer on disputed bonus payments.

The derailment of a Central Line tube train in London on Thursday of last week is down to the privatisation of London Underground infrastructure. It could have been avoided if management had listened to the warnings of the RMT rail workers’ union.

RMT to ballot over pension rights Over 11,000 members of the RMT rail workers’ union at companies covered by the Transport for London (TfL) pension fund are balloting for strike action over plans to undermine the pension rights of people forced to leave their jobs through ill-health.

Members of the RMT union working for Network Rail in Scotland and Cumbria have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a dispute over bonuses.

The announcement that the East London Line’s operations are to be handed to private operator MTR Laing after refurbishment in 2010 was condemned today by the Tube and rail network’s RMT union.

The RMT rail workers’ union is to ballot Network Rail workers denied bonus payments over the Grayrigg accident in Cumbria, and Scottish signallers docked a bonus for striking earlier this year.

On 26 June 1975 Indira Gandhi, then Indian prime minister, declared a state of emergency. She told the nation that it was threatened by "internal disturbances".

The front page of the Evening Standard newspaper on Friday of last week said it all – "Tube Strike: Bosses Cave In." The editorial was headed, "RMT 1, Tube 0."

RMT cleaners demonstration Rail and tube cleaners staged a demonstration outside City Hall in London last week calling for a "living wage" of £7.20 an hour