East Midlands Railway

East Midlands Railway

Avanti Train Managers and EMR engineers keep up their fights

Within our national battles with Network Rail and mainline TOCs over pay, jobs, and conditions, groups of workers within companies are rightly maintaining local battles over specific issues.

Train Managers on Avanti struck on 22 October, with a further strike planned on 6 November, in a dispute...

TSSA members: vote yes for action!

TSSA has announced ballots of its members at several TOCs and Network Rail for industrial action over pay, conditions, and job security, opening up the possibility of further coordinated action between rail unions later in the summer.

870 TSSA members across Avanti West Coast, East Midlands Railway...

Who needs a pay rise?

In a recent vlog a company director told us that in the context of the pandemic we can’t have a pay rise unless we become more efficient.

Perhaps if we broke down that “we” a little more it would illustrate the cheek of that statement. In 2021 the highest paid director got £200,000 and today one...

Data breach

EMR would like us to think that they take data protection seriously but that isn’t the message they are sending with their latest wheeze.
They are asking staff to read a training booklet and complete a quiz in their own time, but the union has rightly pointed out any training needs to be agreed...

Burning Questions

Are you a manager and thinking about becoming a Contingency Guard to break the upcoming strike, then please think again. It isn’t only that some managers’ pay is linked to the pay of the staff they manage meaning your action could indirectly reduce their pay. More importantly you’ll be reducing the...

“SECURITY!!”

If you’ve recently noticed a lack of Nottingham security staff at night, chances are they’ll be at Chesterfield locking up because EMR have got rid of the platform staff that used to do it. We’d just like to know how EMR can tell that there won’t be issues at Nottingham when security are 25 miles...

Don’t sit down

From Notts Off The Rails:

Heartless gate line managers are insisting there will be no stools provided for staff who have injuries that would heal better if they were able to sit down regularly during their shift. Apparently the risk assessment says no but what about the risk to the long term health...

EMR 1 ORR 3

From Notts Off The Rails:

You’d have thought that having been told 6 months ago by the ORR that shunter lone working wasn’t safe EMR would have put a stop to it but they haven’t. On night shifts, when there are supposed to be 3 shunters on duty there often aren’t. How difficult is it for the...

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