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Railway workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of national strike
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Railway workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a bitter dispute over jobs, pay and conditions, threatening massive disruption to the network in the coming weeks.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Network Rail and 15 train operators backed launching a campaign of industrial action.
The union’s leaders will now decide when to call strikes, which will bring huge parts of the network to a standstill. The union said it was the biggest endorsement for industrial action by railway workers since privatisation.
The union will now be demanding urgent talks with Network Rail and the 15 train operating companies.
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