Train drivers to escalate industrial action with series of one-day strikes
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan on the picket line at Euston station in London as members of the train drivers' union at 16 train operators in England stage a 24-hour strike in a bitter, long-running dispute over pay and conditions. Rail passengers fa
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
TRAIN drivers are to stage a series of one-day strikes and a nine-day ban on overtime next month in their long-running dispute over pay.
The Aslef union said the new walkouts will “ratchet up the pressure” on train companies and the government to give drivers their first pay rise in more than four years.
Union members will walk out at EMR and LNER on December 2; at Avanti West Coast, Chiltern, Great Northern Thameslink, and WMT on December 3; at C2C and Greater Anglia on December 5; at Southeastern, Southern/Gatwick Express, the SWR main line and depot, and on the Island Line on December 6; at CrossCountry and GWR on December 7; and at Northern and TPT on December 8.
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