Train drivers to vote on pay deal that could end two-year strike
TRAIN drivers are to vote on a pay deal which could end more than two years of industrial action.
The deal was hammered out in talks between their union Aslef and the new government’s Department of Transport.
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan, assistant general secretary Simon Weller and executive committee President Dave Calfe said in a statement: “We are pleased that after being treated with utter contempt for the last two years by the privatised train companies, and the previous government that was pulling their strings, we finally have a new government – a Labour government – that listens and wants to make the railway work for staff, for passengers, and for the taxpayer.
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