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Numbers haven't dropped. This is additional recruitment to increase the Ticket Examiner compliment across the company to ensure they can guarantee ALL Strathclyde electric services have a 2nd person onboard in order to run. Spare coverage is likely to increase for this reason. It is also to...

No, I just read the agreement correctly! Seems plenty of people didn't, or perhaps their union leadership failed to give their members all the info so they could engineer a dispute with ScotRail? 1715173296 118 new Ticket Examiners to be recruited and trained by December 24 timetable change...

The "caveat" as you refer to it as, only applies to the current SMA DOO services that have Ticket Examiners onboard and will come into force from the December timetable change. A massive upgrade to the current SMA in my opinion, and as a driver I'm happy that the company have suddenly decided...

Strong likelihood that they'll install twin track cantilever masts on the "Up" side behind the platform fence in a similar fashion to what they've done at Pollockshaws West and other stations on the EK/Barrhead lines.

Good progress is also being made on the platform extension at East Kilbride and the new Hairmyres station, which now has the platform base completed on what will be the "down" platform and 3/4s of the bases for the "up" platform installed.

No. As mentioned further up thread, the TSSA industrial action relates to Driver and Conductor Team Managers and revolves around a dispute over out of hours On-call payments.

This guarantee has been given to all guards that are based at Glasgow Central, Ayr, Dumfries and Stranraer.

The TSSA strike won't affect any services. Driver Team Managers and Conductor Team Managers are in dispute over out of hours On-Call duties because they don't get any additional payment if they are called out to an incident.

The 40yr service in regards to automatic right to reduced hours in ScotRail is applied to staff that have 40 continuous years of service with "ScotRail". Basically, of they have not had a break in service from BR days to now ie; never moved to a freight company at privatisation and then moved...

Where have you seen this? Nothing on their webpage.

They are. Head office send out the appropriate badges to every Branch Secretary once a year for them to give out to the members due them.

What the RMT have failed to publish is that major improvements have been secured by ASLEF in regards to the Strathclyde Manning Agreement (SMA), which covers all electric services in the region. Currently the SMA only requires a 2nd person (Ticket Examiner) to be rostered for the service in...

The role is exactly the same as a ScotRail Ticket Examiner, except instead of being diagrammed on a train, you get sent in teams of 2 or 3 to stations all over the network. The pay and commission is the same aswell. They don't have any extra powers and can't issue penalty fares etc like...

I'm sure on the internal advert there's usually an email address to contact with any queries about the role. From what I've seen driving on my routes, the Revenue Protection teams are basically mobile Ticket Examiners and can be sent to any stations as a "hit squad". For instance, they've...

Very much doubt they'd even consider using 769s to replace HSTs. HST availability is quite good at the moment, but there's plenty going on in the background to accelerate their replacement and withdrawal from service. Anniesland services seem to be the best fit for any 769 usage, as they'll...