Relations between management and staff have broken down after a series of strikes called by rail unions opposed to the extension of driver-only trains.
"The agreements are in place to only have 10-car coaches as driver-only, and to stop any extension of driver-only operation," the spokesman said.
"It is disgraceful that neither the company nor the government are prepared to engage and are looking to bully through the extension of driver-only operation and the attack on the guards set for 21 August.
The RMT and drivers' union Aslef have agreed to oppose any extension of driver-only operation on trains, with the unions believing they had too readily conceded the principle in the past.
While Southern, operated by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) into London from Sussex, Surrey and parts of Kent, is not planning to make compulsory redundancies, unions are implacably opposed to any extension of driver-only operated trains.
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