Network Rail takes legal action to stop strikes

Network Rail is taking legal action in a bid to avert next week's planned strikes by signallers.

The RMT and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) is planning a four-day strike from 6 April, which it says could hit 80% of services.

Looks like NR are hoping for something along the same lines as the judgement that scuppered Unites first ballot in the BA strikes.
Though unless a load of redundancies have already been announced (and people selected or volunteered) I doubt the same argument would hold (people already being made redundant can't vote, presumably because they are biased).

They may be biased but they still have a right to vote. Unless the company is seriously downsizing they really should not make up a huge percentage of the total staff. It can also work in the companies favour. If people think that there will be a significant vote in favour because of those already lined up for redundancies then that can skew the result the other way.

I [LIFTED] hate left wing unions. Bloody strike mongers.

So, whatever your employer decides to do to you, your pay/salary, pension, contract or other benefits is fine by you? You must either be self employed or have a very good relationship with your boss.
It's not like the workers, via their unions, have refused to negotiate. Quite the opposite in fact.
Sometimes strike action is all that is left to make your point otherwise you might as well bend over and take it.

The problem is that many companies treat their staff like serfs, and it might even be that strike action is now more because of incompetent management, than work shy workers. The BA staff have been willing to negotiate even accepting pay cuts. Though management have gone too far in trying to break the workforce.

The BA management know they could get qualified people to do the same job for less...

There are right wing unions?

No, but some unions, usually those that used to represent state owned companies, seem to think they're not doing their job unless they're trying to strike. More modern unions don't have their heads buried in the 70's sand.