GIVEN the appalling health and safety record of our privatised railways, I was staggered to learn that the Strategic Rail Authority is to compensate rail operating companies for revenue lost as a result of the RMT union's health and safety strike.
What crazy logic allows taxpayers' money to subsidise the profits of private companies and their millionaire backers for not running a service?
Roger Bannister
UNISON National
Executive Council
(Personal Capacity)
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