Waverley Station staff vote on strike activity

WNO-STRIKE-TRAIN staff at Waverley Station are being balloted for modern activity after rail managers sacked a cooking laborer for not offering enough tea and espresso.

Charlie Letham, 51, had worked for CrossCountry for almost 13 years however was rejected for neglecting to meet income targets offering items from his trolley.

Presently rail union RMT is asking parts to back strike activity in challenge at the sacking.

Today, Mr Letham – who has specialists' letters saying he was experiencing despondency – talked about his misery at being sacked.

He said: "I was totally crushed.

"It was my life. I feel let around the organization after all the years I've worked for them.

"My specialist attempted to help me by sending letters yet the organization recently disregarded therapeutic exhortation."

Mr Letham said deals from the trolley were "hit and miss" and travelers frequently decided to purchase hot beverages at the station.

He said: "You can't compel individuals to purchase stuff. I've assumed control £500 a few days and afterward an alternate day it may be simply £200."

Mr Letham, who worked for the most part on the Edinburgh-Birmingham course, said the sacking in November had come as a stun. "I had as of late lost my step-father and my mom had been diagnosed with dementia, which place me into a condition of wretchedness," he said.

"I saw an organization specialist who said they ought to provide for me an eight to ten week balancing out period, however when that was up, as opposed to sending me once again for an audit, they sacked me."

The union guaranteed Mr Letham had been unjustifiably focused on and is requesting his restoration. It said other rail organizations did not work a comparable arrangement of offers focuses with the risk of disciplinary activity on the off chance that they were missed.

RMT provincial coordinator Mick Hogg said CrossCountry's own methodology expressed that hidden restorative issues must be considered, however have been overlooked.

He said in perspective of Mr Letham's therapeutic condition, he ought to have been exchanged to top of the line, where deals targets don't make a difference.

"RMT immovably accepts that Charlie Letham was deliberately focused on and the CRISP strategy (Catering Retail Improvement Sales Program) was utilized to reject him," said Mr Hogg.

A CrossCountry representative said: "We are baffled the RMT has decided to ticket their CrossCountry parts at Edinburgh. Mr Letham's position has been painstakingly viewed as, including a broad survey with RMT delegates that took a gander at all the actualities together with his therapeutic and individual circumstances. "Shockingly, his role as a component of our cooking deals group has been reliably and impressively beneath that of his associates over a long stretch and misses the mark regarding the administration we need to offer our clients."

A last bid in Mr Letham's case was because of be considered on Monday, yet the RMT said administration had crossed out the gathering finally without 
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SOURCE                    SCOTSMAN

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