RAILWAY staff are to launch industrial action on the same day Nottingham Train Station closes for refurbishment.
Rail workers union RMT today announced they will work to rule from Saturday until further notice.
The union has around 140 members working in Notts as conductors, station attendants and other roles.
The action means they will not work any overtime, not work any rest days, not to perform any additional duties outside job descriptions, and only work agreed rostered hours and rostered turns of duty.
It is likely to heap further misery on travellers already facing having to catch replacement buses to other stations over the coming five weeks.
RMT says it has a number of issues with East Midlands Trains which have caused the action.
These include failing to consult over the works at Nottingham Train Station, and intimidation and bullying of members.
RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "The industrial relations climate on East Midlands has sunk to a new low with the company attempting to bulldoze through changes off the back of an engineering blockade which has been planned over the long term and is now being dressed up as a bogus emergency to try and justify ignoring procedures and ripping up working agreements."
