Train drivers vote to end longest strike in recent history
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.
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