Action on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday is expected to cause disruption across Britain.
Network Rail, which owns and maintains the country's railways, said the union was "dismissing talks before we've even finished" with more discussions planned for Sunday.
"We won't be bought off on that principle. We cannot have our members' lives disrupted in the way they are proposing," he said."Working people in this country are fed up with low pay and precarious work as well as having decent conditions under threat," he said., the RMT said its position in all pay negotiations was for an above Retail Price Index inflation pay rise.
The RMT says there are proposals to cut 2,500 maintenance jobs on Network Rail, which the union claims could "increase the possibility of trains flying off the tracks".'No one wins' The group's chair Steve Montgomery said this week that taxpayers have supported the rail industry with "the equivalent of about £600 per household since Covid" adding that "passenger numbers are still only at around 75% of pre-pandemic levels".
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