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Train drivers and workers vote overwhelmingly to accept pay offers
Members of the Aslef union on a picket line near to Leeds train station, June 03, 2023
TRAIN drivers and workers voted overwhelmingly to accept pay offers from operating companies, their unions revealed today.
Aslef announced that drivers in Scotland voted 75.89 per cent in favour of accepting a recent deal of 5 per cent for 2022-23, 4.75 per cent for last year and 4.5 per cent for 2024-25 by ScotRail.
And members of RMT backed a one-year rise of 4.5 per cent at Network Rail (NR) and increases at train operators of 4.75 per cent for the last year and 4.5 per cent for 2024-25.
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