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Article: South West Trains to sack hundreds
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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A sweeping redundancy programme is expected to be announced
within days by South West Trains, the first privatised rail
company, now operated by Stagecoach, Britain's largest bus company.
Union officials and management are due to meet today to discuss
the redundancy plan, which is expected to be carried out over the
next few weeks.
Several hundred of the 4,000 staff are likely to be made
redundant and unions fear that they will be offered terms less
generous than those available under the old BR agreement, which are
more than double the statutory minimum.
South West Trains admitted last month, shortly after the
takeover by Stagecoach, that 125 white collar staff were being made
redundant, ...