Please write to your MP and urge them to sign Early Day Motion 1195

RMT is campaigning to make the Labour government’s promised ‘biggest wave of insourcing for a generation’ a reality for rail workers.

The government’s pledge and the creation of an integrated publicly owned Great British Railways both mark a new stage in the struggle to end outsourcing.  

Many essential rail services across rail and metro networks - such as cleaning, station staffing, catering, security, rail infrastructure and engineering - will still be outsourced to private contractors.

That is bad news for passengers. RMT research shows outsourcing has cost the taxpayer and farepayer £400 million annually in profits leaking out of the rail industry, the equivalent of a 3.8 per cent fare cut, while insourcing and integrating these services with the rest of the network would provide better quality, safety and value for money.

Outsourcing is also bad news for rail workers as it is an employment model driven by employers engaging workers on precarious contracts and on inferior terms and conditions, such as poorer sick pay and pensions.

Outsourcing could also be embedding systematic racism on parts of the rail network where workers are disproportionally from a BME background.

Please write to your MP and urge them to sign Early Day Motion 1195 and sign our petition and ask Heidi Alexander, Secretary of State for Transport to #EndRailOutsourcing