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RMT members at East Midlands Railway plan to strike on 1, 8, and 15 August, in an ongoing dispute over fleet safety.
The new 810 fleet has been running with what the union calls "a significant number of faults". EMR has been "sending trains into service that are likely to fail and require a full reset which leaves the train with no active safety systems including loss of communication between train drivers, dispatchers, and trackside which has occurred at least three times in the last week alone."
This kind of reckless attitude to safety puts workers and passengers at risk. The demand of the strike is simple: take the faulty trains out of service.
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