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Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/6345 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 18th July 2007 Metronet , the contractor charged with a Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/6415 Written by Lee on Saturday, 21st July 2007 More on this in the link below. http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/07/tfl_chief_defends_metronet_war.html#more Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/6527 Written by Lee on Friday, 27th July 2007 Calls are growing for Gordon Brown to return Tube contracts to the public sector (links below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/07/rmt_welcomes_mps_call_to_bring.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/07/metronet_workers_to_lobby_down.html#more Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/6617 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 1st August 2007 More than 2,600 members of London Underground Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/6935 Written by Lee on Saturday, 18th August 2007 A Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/7014 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 22nd August 2007 Nearly 3,000 members of RMT, TSSA and Unite have voted by massive margins for strike action to defend jobs and conditions at Metronet (link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/08/metronet_workers_vote_for_stri.html#more RMT and TSSA members also voted to strike over the failure to guarantee that there would be no cuts in pension entitlements. Union leaders revealed that 95 per cent of their members at Metronet , the consortium that collapsed into administration last month , have backed industrial action. They warned that unless Metronet Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/7091 Written by Lee on Saturday, 25th August 2007 Transport For London plan to bid for Metronet , and the RMT set strike dates (links below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/08/plan_for_public_control_of_tub.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/08/london_city_government_plans_b.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/08/metronet_workers_set_two_three.html#more Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/7393 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 4th September 2007 The latest on the strikes in the links below. http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/08/metronet_strike_goes_ahead_on.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/09/tube_strike_travel_chaos_expec.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/09/tube_network_crippled_by_strik.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/09/rmt_welcomes_talks_today_in_me.html#more Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/7424 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 5th September 2007 The strikes have been suspended (link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/09/tube_strike_suspended_after_ta.html#more Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/7447 Written by Lee on Thursday, 6th September 2007 Bob Crow has warned that a 72 hour strike planned for next Monday remained , pending the outcome of further talks (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6980755.stm Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/7464 Written by Lee on Friday, 7th September 2007 More in the links below. http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/09/londoners_want_tube_maintenanc.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/09/strike_standard_man_attacked_o.html#more http://www.theresavilliers.co.uk/article/?id=293&PHPSESSID=f95e03e93e1613629ed6b56a6eb3b829 Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/7574 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 12th September 2007 There are claims that Metronet could be difficult to sell , and could even jeopardise the 2012 Olympics (links below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6989681.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6989382.stm Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/7671 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 18th September 2007 The BBC News website looks at the key questions behind the collapse and its consequences (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6992811.stm Re: Brown To Face Backlash As Metronet Prepares To Go Into Administration - 3034/8498 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 7th November 2007 Transport For London was the only bidder for Metronet , and will take over next year (link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/11/rmt_welcomes_news_that_tfl_is.html#more link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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