CrossCountry RMT Members to Strike Across December

RMT has announced that its members will take strike action on CrossCountry services throughout December following a breakdown in negotiations regarding pay, staffing and ‘previously agreed commitments’.

The union has stated that it has ‘tried repeatedly for months to reach a negotiated settlement’, with no mutually-agreed upon outcome having been found thus far.

RMT members will now, as a result, strike on 06, 13, 20 and 27 December.

RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said:

CrossCountry has not dealt with the core issues in this dispute and has come back with a proposal that is worse than what was already on the table.

Our members are still facing unresolved staffing shortages, unfair pay outcomes and broken commitments.

RMT members have been left with no choice but to take strike action.

The company must return with a serious offer that meets the commitments it has already made and treats our members with the fairness and respect they deserve.

Earlier this month, the Union suspended strike action that was set to take place over the weekend beginning 01 November after talks between the company and the union to resolve what RMT states are ‘issues regarding the undermining of safety-critical roles and threats to safety and jobs’.