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Workers on Virgin Trains East Coast are to stage three 24-hour strikes this month, including one on Bank Holiday Monday, the RMT union has said.Workers on Virgin Trains East Coast are to stage three 24-hour strikes this month, including one on Bank Holiday Monday, the RMT union has said.
Members will walk out from 03:00 on 19, 26 and 29 August and ban overtime for 48 hours from August 27, in a row over job cuts, work conditions and safety.
The union said the dispute involved around 1,800 of its members.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said it would not tolerate Virgin Trains' "cavalier attitude to safety".
The union said train guards, station staff and some drivers were set to take part in the walkouts. Depot maintenance workers will not be taking strike action.
It said almost 200 jobs are threatened at Virgin Trains East Coast, saying the rail franchise was trying to "bulldoze through a package of cash-led measures that would decimate jobs, working conditions and threaten the safety regime that currently ensures a guard on every train".
Mr Cash added: "The company have chosen to treat the negotiations as a game thus far, merely going through the motions of pretending they did not yet know what their plans entailed.
"To behave like that is to treat the union and its members with pure contempt."
It comes as the first of four separate Eurostar strikes by staff from two unions - including the RMT - began on Friday. It also follows strikes earlier in the week on Southern Railway.