{"id":33475,"date":"2025-12-03T00:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/amey-rail-maintenance-workers-to-hold-strike-ballot\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:08:37","slug":"amey-rail-maintenance-workers-to-hold-strike-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/amey-rail-maintenance-workers-to-hold-strike-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Amey rail maintenance workers to hold strike ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-503968\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Around 300 Amey rail maintenance workers across Scotland, Wales, North East, Midlands, London and all Southern regions will be asked to support strike action in the ballot which opens today and closes on Monday 15 December.<\/p>\n<p>The action follows Amey\u2019s decision to proceed with a pay offer of 2.2% despite the offer being rejected by TSSA members.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial action could lead to delays and disruption in surveying and maintaining railway infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>TSSA General Secretary, Maryam Eslamdoust, said: \u201cThis ballot is about securing a fair pay deal for our members. Amey\u2019s decision to move ahead with a previously rejected offer shows they are acting in bad faith towards their workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTSSA members, who are highly skilled, work hard to\u00a0maintain\u00a0a safe railway. They deserve a fair deal that takes into account inflation and the rising cost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/12\/03\/amey-rail-maintenance-workers-to-hold-strike-ballot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Around 300 Amey rail maintenance workers across Scotland, Wales, North East, Midlands, London and all Southern regions will be &#8230; <a title=\"Amey rail maintenance workers to hold strike ballot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/amey-rail-maintenance-workers-to-hold-strike-ballot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Amey rail maintenance workers to hold strike ballot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}