RAIL passengers are set for more days of commuter hell as two further days of strikes have been penned in. Travel chaos is looming as workers from more than a dozen operators are due to walk out am…
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers and Transport Salaried Staffs' Association -Arriva Rail London, Chiltern Railways, Greater Anglia, Great Western, Hull Trains, LNER, Southeastern and West Midlands Trains -Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan said: "We don't want to go on strike - strikes are the result of a failure of negotiation - and this union, since I was elected general secretary in 2011, has only ever been on strike, until this year, for a handful of...
"We don't want to inconvenience passengers, not least because our friends and families use public transport too, and we believe in building trust in the railways in Britain, and we don't want to lose money by going on strike."The drivers at the companies where we are striking have had a real-terms pay cut over the last three years, since April 2019.
"Strike action is, now, the only option available but we are always open to talks if the train companies, or the Government, want to talk to us and make a fair and sensible offer."Read More on The Sun
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