{"id":142996,"date":"2018-06-19T00:41:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T00:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/northern-rail-guards-row-sparks-fresh-strikes\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T00:41:16","slug":"northern-rail-guards-row-sparks-fresh-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/northern-rail-guards-row-sparks-fresh-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Rail: Guards row sparks fresh strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Rail train\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/652B\/production\/_102099852_northern.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  PA<figcaption>Image caption                                      The dispute has been running for two years                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Passengers on Northern Rail services are facing further disruption with a fresh strike in a long-running dispute over guards on trains.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are staging a 24-hour stoppage, with further walkouts planned for Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would run as many services as possible between 07:00 and 19:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p>The union claims imposing driver-only services is a risk to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Regional director for Northern, Sharon Keith, said: &quot;On each day of the strike action we will be running fewer services and expect those services we do operate to be extremely busy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is, therefore, vital that anyone thinking of travelling with Northern on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday plans their journey carefully.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Workers strike again in train safety row<\/li>\n<li>Rail strike go ahead as talks fail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: &quot;It&#039;s another day and another rail scandal under [Transport Secretary] Chris Grayling.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Instead of propping up a foreign owned company in its fight against British workers, Chris Grayling should be allowing meaningful discussions to take place which would allow passengers to keep a second member of staff on every train.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A Department for Transport spokesman said: &quot;This dispute is not about jobs or safety. Guards have been guaranteed their jobs and the independent rail regulator has ruled that driver-controlled trains, which have been used in this country for 30 years, are safe.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We urge the union to abandon these strikes, work with the train operator and make passengers&#039; services their number one priority.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>RMT members on South Western Railway will strike for three days from Thursday in the same dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright PAImage caption The dispute has been running for two years Passengers on Northern Rail services are facing further disruption with a fresh strike in a long-running dispute over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}