WORKERS fighting for pay equality on Abellio Scotrail are to launch a fresh wave of strike action that threatens to disrupt travel to major events in Scotland.

Euro football fixtures at Hampden Park, the Edinburgh Festival and even the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November could face disruption unless Scottish ministers and Abellio bosses face up to their responsibilities, the RMT union said today.

Industrial relations with the company have sunk to an all-time low, as the long-running disputes over rest-day working have been compounded by the absence of any response to the union’s 2021 pay claim – which RMT says is also the result of ministers’ failure to give Abellio the green light to talk.