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Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan (centre) on the picket line at Euston train station in London, as members of train drivers union are launching a wave of fresh walkouts in a long-running dispute over pay, April 5, 2024
TRAIN drivers have voted overwhelmingly to accept a multi-year pay offer made by the new Labour government, ending a two-year dispute at 16 rail companies, their union said today.
Aslef said its members voted by 96 per cent in favour of a deal worth 15 per cent over three years and backdated to 2022, with a ballot turnout of 84 per cent.
The ballot result ends what Aslef called the longest train drivers’ strike in recent history, during which 13,000 drivers struck for 18 days.
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more