RMT union to hold strike ballot over pensions row

摘要

THE threat of the first national rail strike since privatisation has moved a stage closer, after the RMT union announced a ballot over possible changes to the Railways Pension Scheme. The union said it is asking 40,000 workers to vote. General Secretary Mick Cash said: "If it takes the first national rail strike in a generation to defend our members' pensions, then so be it.