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Railway reforms will be imposed if workers do not agree to new deals, the transport secretary Grant Shapps has said.
The Conservative party has repeatedly targeted unions with criticism, in a move that the Trades Union Congress has argued it is deliberately “picking a fight” for electoral purposes.
The deal that is on the table actually means largely no compulsory redundancies at all.
If [the unions] are not prepared to put that deal to your membership we will never know whether members would accept it.