Brits up and down the country heading back to work today after the Christmas break will have to navigate the most disruptive rail strikes yet as members of the RMT, Network Rail and 14 train operators start to stage two 48-hour walkouts 🚂
Brits heading back to work after the Christmas break will have to navigate the most disruptive rail strikes yet, with five consecutive days of industrial action set to leave many stranded.and 14 train operators will stage two 48-hour walkouts from Tuesday and Friday. Drivers in the Aslef union will strike on Thursday.
The train drivers’ strike on Thursday will affect 15 operators and will result in even fewer services running, with some companies operating ‘very significantly reduced’ timetables.An information sheet displayed at Kings Cross station ‘This dispute will only be resolved by agreeing the long overdue reforms to working arrangements needed to put the industry on a sustainable footing, rather than unions condemning their members to losing more pay in the new year.’
‘We have worked with the rail industry to reach successful negotiated settlements ever since privatisation in 1993, and we have achieved deals across the network in 2021 and 2022 where the Department for Transport has no involvement. ‘They have not offered our members a penny, and these are people who have not had an increase since April 2019.
‘We are always happy to negotiate – we never refuse to sit down at the table and talk, but these companies have offered us nothing, and that is unacceptable.’A Department for Transport spokesperson said: ‘Passengers have rightly had enough of rail strikes and want the disruption to end.
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