Avanti West Coast
All Grades Newsletter
January 2025
ON STRIKE! Train Manager picket lines on 31 December and 2 January
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A new year, the same old problems? As the year 2024 drew to a close, Avanti West Coast found itself embroiled in three disputes, raising serious questions about the company’s ability to both resolve industrial relations issues and manage its operations effectively. The company’s performance in the latter part of the year
was marred on the operations’ front by an unacceptable number of cancellations and part-cancellations, placing it among the worst-performing rail operators in the country. While operational deficiencies are concerning, the state of industrial relations within Avanti is even more troubling. Despite efforts to “reset” industrial relations,