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Old 28th June 2007, 01:34 PM
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Default Rail chaos on 6 July as Network Rail RMT members vote to strike in Cumbria, Lancashir

Rail transport chaos is expected early next month after Network*Rail workers voted to strike in two separate bonus disputes. The rail industry's biggest union, the National*Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said that workers in Scotland and Cumbria would be holding 24-hour stoppages on 6 July, following a ballot of members in Scotland and in Cumbria and Lancashire. The Scottish members voted by 186 to 116 in favour of a strike over a £300 bonus withheld*after a*strike in March over new shift patterns. Maintenance workers in Lancashire and Cumbria voted to strike in protest after a £400 cut in bonuses, instigated in the wake of the derailment of a Virgin train*at Grayrigg in February. One elderly female passenger died and several others were seriously injured. Executive*directors at the rail company also agreed to defer part of their own bonuses until investigators had determined the cause of the crash. RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "Network Rail has...


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