Train drivers are to strike on 1 and 3 February after union bosses rejected a pay offer from rail companies.
Drivers had been offered a 4% pay rise for two years in a row earlier this month in a bid to end a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.Aslef said the proposal was "not and could not ever be acceptable", but its general secretary Mick Whelan said the union was open to further talks.
The two new strike dates will affect 15 train companies. The union has staged action on six previous occasions, causing huge disruption to services, with some operators unable to run any trains. The offer, the first in the dispute to be made by the Rail Delivery Group , which represents train companies, would have seen drivers get a backdated pay rise of 4% for 2022 and a 4% increase this year.
After sending the offer earlier this month, the RDG had said it was contingent on "common sense, vital and long overdue changes to working arrangements across the industry", arguing they would deliver a more reliable service to passengers.
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