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http://m.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/RMT...train-worker/story-26537953-detail/story.html
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I'll like to add that the Cleethorpes to Doncaster Sunday service is a bus more likely than a train this year., or it seams to be. So this strike won't be too bad.
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UNIONS are planning strike action in support of a Grimsby train worker, who they say has been unfairly dismissed after an incident when he was abused and spat at by a gang of youths who were train 'surfing' at the town's station. The union bosses have already announced dates this month and next for strikes and industrial action against what they claim to be 'harsh' treatment of the unnamed worker, who was on a Transpennine Express train pulling out of Grimsby [Town] station when the incident happened.
In a statement released this morning the Rail Union RMT said their member was on a train departing the station when a gang of youths were acting in an anti-social manner.The statement describes how one of the youths tried to surf the train when the RMT member spotted this and stopped the train before he had given the driver the right signal to depart – which is two buzzers.He shouted and gesticulated to the youth to move away from the train and then started the departure process again, claims the statement.
However after he had done so, the union statement claims the youth once again tried to surf the train by holding on to the door frame and standing on the small step board.The statement adds: "The train started to move off down the platform at 7mph with the youth clinging on for about 15 metres then jumping back off and the train continuing."RMT's member saw the youth, and in the seconds it took the incident to happen, he judged that it was safer to allow the youth to jump back off at slow speed, rather than carry out the approved procedure of pressing the red emergency stop button, which would have made an immediate emergency full brake application, possibly throwing the youth off balance."As the rear of the train passed the access gate at which the youths had gathered, the youth who had been clinging to the train then directed foul and abusive language at the RMT member and spat at him, but luckily missed.
Our member then reported the incident to control."The union statement adds: "Despite the extenuating circumstances behind this case, and despite our member being fully open and honest about what happened, the company moved to dismiss, triggering a ballot which delivered an overwhelming vote for action."The action will take place every Sunday in June, between 12.01am and 11.59pm and will involve all Transpennine Express conductor workers located at Cleethorpes and Sheffield.
I'll like to add that the Cleethorpes to Doncaster Sunday service is a bus more likely than a train this year., or it seams to be. So this strike won't be too bad.
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