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RMT Lobby ‘For A People’s Railway’

5th May 2009

Rail bosses are using the recession as an excuse to attack jobs and conditions and cut back on services and essential rail works, and hike rail fares - as LEAP research suggested they would.

The RMT, supported by the TSSA, has called a national demonstration and lobby of parliament on Tuesday 5th May to demand:

  * An end to cuts in rail jobs and services. A freeze in shareholder dividends with all profits instead invested to protect services and jobs.
  * An urgent industry-wide programme so our railways can provide a green stimulus to the economy to help fight the economic downturn.
  * A wholly integrated, publicly-owned and accountable People’s Railway and London Underground which put people before profit and where passengers and workers have a real voice

1pm Assemble and demonstrate outside Houses of Parliament; 2pm Rally in Committee Room 14, Houses of Parliament; 3pm Lobby your MP.

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