Rail apprentice education must be brought back in house, RMTconference hears
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RMT called today for the end to the outsourcing of education for railway apprentices at the union’s AGM.
Moving the successful motion, London Underground fleet delegate Fred Seale said that the state of apprentice education “has never been worse.”
He added: “I am a third year apprentice but the outsourced education … falls far short of what was promised.
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