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# Union calls for outsourced staff not to be left behind when train operators return to public ownership
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/union-calls-for-outsourced-staff-not-to-be-left-behind-when-train-operators-return-to-public-ownership/
- Published: 2026-02-01T08:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-31T11:25:00.000Z
- Description: A union has welcomed moves to bring local railway services back under public ownership, but urged the Government not leave outsourced staff behind.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Streethay, Transport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:11, News

A UNION has welcomed moves to bring local railway services back under public ownership, but urged the Government not leave outsourced staff behind.

London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway [will become part of Great British Railways next week](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/train-operators-to-come-under-public-ownership/).

It is part of Government plans to return the railways to the control of single organisation.

The move was praised by RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey – but he warned workers must not be left behind.

> “Bringing these services back into public ownership is welcome, but it is not right that outsourced staff will not enjoy the benefits of being brought into Great British Railways.  
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> “The Government has committed to delivering the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation and that promise must now be honoured.  
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> “Outsourced cleaning, catering and other frontline jobs should be brought in-house, ending this super exploitation that has driven down pay, worsened conditions and led to huge amounts of money leaking out of the industry into shareholders pockets.  
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> “A publicly owned integrated railway should directly employ the staff who keep it running, reinvesting money back into services instead of leaking it out in private profit to private contractors.”