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		</div><p>Eurostar rail workers are to take seven days of strike action this month in a dispute over work/life balance.</p>
<p>Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union will walk out from 00:01am on Friday August 12 until 11.59pm on Monday August 15 and for three days over the Bank Holiday weekend from August 27.</p>
<p>It is the third dispute to break out on the railways, with RMT members on Southern Railway on strike this week over the role of conductors and the union announcing a vote for action on Virgin Trains East Coast over jobs.</p>
<p>The union said the dispute centres on Eurostar’s failure to honour an agreement from 2008 which sought to ensure that train managers could expect a good work/life balance in terms of unsocial hours and duty rosters.</p>
<p>RMT members voted in favour of strike action, claiming that their work/life balance was being “repeatedly undermined”.</p>
<p>RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: “Our train manager members at Eurostar have a heavy commitment to shift work and unsocial hours and are sick and tired of the company’s failure to honour agreements.</p>
<p>“Our members have every right to have a fair work/life balance that fulfils the operational needs of the company while guaranteeing quality time off for friends and family.</p>
<p>“It’s now time for Eurostar to come to the negotiating table with a set of proposals that honours our agreements and guarantees our members a genuine work/life balance.”</p>
<p>Around 80 train managers are involved in the dispute.</p>
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