Tens of 1000’s of rail employees will stage two additional strikes this month as their dispute over pay, jobs and circumstances continues.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Network Rail and 14 practice operators will strike on 15 and 17 September.
The union mentioned that the rail community would “effectively shut down” as greater than 40,000 of its members stroll off the job.
RMT common secretary Mick Lynch mentioned: “Our members have no choice but to continue this strike action.
“Network Rail and the practice working corporations have proven little curiosity this previous few weeks in providing our members something new to ensure that us to have the ability to come to a negotiated settlement.
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“Grant Shapps (Transport Secretary) continues his dereliction of obligation by staying in his bunker and shackling the rail trade from making a cope with us.
“We will continue to negotiate in good faith, but the employers and government need to understand our industrial campaign will continue for as long as it takes.”
It comes simply days after Aslef and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association introduced strikes by their members within the coming weeks.
In separate disputes, RMT members at Hull Trains and Arriva Rail London may also strike for at some point on 15 September.
A Department for Transport spokesperson mentioned: “Yet again, union leaders are choosing self-defeating, co-ordinated strike action over constructive talks, not only disrupting the lives of millions who rely on these services but jeopardising the future of the railways and their own members’ livelihoods.
“These reforms ship the modernisations our rail community urgently wants, are important to the way forward for rail, and can occur, strikes won’t change this.”
Source: information.sky.com”