Transport Salaried Staffs' Association

1. TSSA Dismisses Williams Rail Review Comments As 'Pure Fiction'

   16 July 2019

   TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has dismissed as "pure fiction" a suggestion that a new largely independent body should be created to oversee the entire rail network.

2. TSSA Seeks Urgent Thomas Cook Meeting and Jobs Guarantees

   12 July 2019

   TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has said the union is seeking an urgent meeting with Thomas Cook and is demanding guarantees on jobs after it emerged the travel company is in £750m rescue talks with banks and its largest shareholder, Fosun.

3. TSSA Response To Network Rail Safety Taskforce

   11 July 2019

   TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has welcomed Network Rail's (NR) announcement of a new safety taskforce, backed with a £70m fund, to target track-worker safety. Cortes has also called for an urgent meeting with the boss of Network Rail and pointed to a number of outstanding issues relating to lineside safety.

4. TSSA Warns Of Strike Action At ScotRail After Breakdown In Relations

   10 July 2019

   TSSA has written to ScotRail warning of a "near complete breakdown of industrial relations" as the union prepared to ballot members for strike action.

5. Manuel Cortes Letter to Andrew Haines - Network Rail Chief Executive

   9 July 2019

   Dear Andrew The tragic incident at Port Talbot on 03 July, brings into sharp focus a number of issues relating to the planning and delivery of safe work that TSSA has been seeking to address with Network Rail over the past two years.

6. TSSA Welcomes Labour's Commitment to Campaign For Remain

   9 July 2019

   TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has hailed as "a shaft of summer sunlight and clarity" Labour's commitment that that the Party will now campaign for Remain in any forthcoming Brexit referendum.

7. Cortes Dismisses 'Shallow' Virgin Comments On UK Railways

   9 July 2019

   TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes has dismissed as "shallow" comments from Virgin Rail Group that the British franchise market is 'becoming uninvestable'.

8. Grayling Must Come Clean On Rail Enhancement Projects

   4 July 2019

   TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has demanded Chris Grayling "comes clean" about a series of promised major rail enhancements after it emerged Network Rail is being gagged from disclosing the list of projects.

9. TSSA Response To South Wales Train Deaths

   3 July 2019

   TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has called for a full investigation into the "tragic" deaths of two railway workers this morning in South Wales, saying - "something has gone badly wrong."

10. Johnson & Hunt Freeport Backing Reveals Brexit Intentions

    2 July 2019

    TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has lambasted Tory leadership candidates, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, after they were accused of trying to turn the UK into a haven for tax evaders and money launderers.

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