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11-Feb-08 11:08 [Pay and Reward]
RMT to ballot members over industrial action The Rail Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) is to ballot its members about taking more industrial action, but over safety and staffing levels, not pay and employee reward.
A ballot will be held between 15th February and 11th March by the Transport Salaried Staffs Association.
Gerry Doherty, RMT general secretary, said: "Despite the sound of certain people jumping on political bandwagons, this is a straight forward industrial dispute which we hope to resolve with London Underground through normal negotiations."
He added that industrial action is always the "last resort" and he is confident that the union's members will "support us if that is what is needed to resolve the dispute".
A date for a strike has not been set but Transport for London has come out and said that the threats of strike action are "completely unreasonable".
RMT has nearly 75,000 members from almost every sector of the transport industry.
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