{"id":126750,"date":"2025-05-24T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126750\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:46:09","slug":"crosscountry-staff-to-begin-industrial-action-over-rest-day-working-with-impact-to-west-midlands-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126750\/","title":{"rendered":"CrossCountry staff to begin industrial action over rest-day working &#8211; with impact to West Midlands routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Rail, Maritime and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/transport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transport<\/a> union (RMT) will take the action from Monday June 9 until October, excluding Sundays in the dispute over rest-day working.<\/p>\n<p>CrossCountry offers numerous services in the West Midlands, primarily from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> New Street, connecting it with various destinations. Some popular routes include Birmingham to Manchester, Edinburgh, Nottingham, and Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said: \u201cCrossCountry\u00a0is trying\u00a0to\u00a0wriggle out of agreements and block fair pay for our members.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f5ca41ed-edc2-496c-920d-6401b0dd186d.jpg\"   alt=\"CrossCountry train services will be unable to run at Wolverhampton due to the signalling issue\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>CrossCountry train services will be unable to run at Wolverhampton due to the signalling issue<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not accept that and our members have been left with no choice but to take industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur members deserve proper recognition for the work they do, and we will campaign until they get it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the employer and the Department for Transport\u00a0to\u00a0negotiate properly and help us reach a negotiated settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shiona Rolfe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CrossCountry<\/a>\u2019s managing director, said: \u201cWe are disappointed for our passengers that the RMT has announced an overtime ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain committed to reaching an agreement with the RMT that avoids disruption for passengers and remain available to continue talks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will take the action from Monday June 9 until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-126750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-transport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}