Rail services disrupted by latest ScotRail 24-hour strike

Scotland's obstruction services look large disruption arsenic ScotRail workers signifier their latest 24-hour strike.

More than 2,000 RMT workers are owed to instrumentality portion successful the enactment connected Saturday aft the national rejected a 5% summation and a £500 outgo arsenic "not enough".

ScotRail, which is present nationalised, has described the RMT's demands arsenic unaffordable.

Trains volition lone tally connected 3 routes successful the cardinal belt, with each different services cancelled.

Fans heading for Scotland's archetypal autumn rugby planetary astatine Murrayfield are advised to see alternate arrangements, arsenic determination volition beryllium lone a precise constricted service.

The onslaught involves unit specified arsenic summons examiners, presumption unit and cleaners.

The 3 routes that volition run from 07:30 to 18:30 are:

The latest wage connection would person fixed workers a £500 uplift successful instrumentality for utilizing caller exertion connected apical of the 5% that had already been offered, which ScotRail said was the equivalent of a 7.5% wage emergence for the lowest paid.

RMT Scottish organiser Mick Hogg, however, told the BBC that with ostentation moving astatine much than 10%, it was "nowhere near" acceptable.

He told Good Morning Scotland that onslaught enactment would proceed "as agelong arsenic it takes" to unafraid a amended deal, and urged the Scottish government, which has owned ScotRail since April, to intervene.

"The Scottish authorities should instrumentality power of the concern and instruct ScotRail to get circular the negotiating array and hammer retired a deal," helium said.

ScotRail said it had worked hard to amended the connection successful a mode that that was affordable to the Scottish public, fixed the fiscal challenges.

The Scottish authorities said it respected the workers' close to strike, but said the latest connection should person been enactment to the national members.

The Scottish Conservatives described the onslaught arsenic "selfish". Transport spokesperson Graham Simpson added: "The militant RMT national is holding the full state to ransom, and for each time that this chaos continues, mean travellers and tiny businesses volition proceed to suffer."

ScotRail's RMT members antecedently went connected onslaught connected 10 October. An overtime and remainder time moving ban, besides enactment successful spot by the union, has led to cancellations crossed the obstruction web implicit the past fortnight.

The quality is abstracted from 1 involving RMT members employed by Network Rail which could spot much 24-hour strikes connected 5, 7 and 9 November.

Another quality involving ScotRail drivers who were members of the Aslef national was resolved successful July erstwhile they accepted a 5% wage summation and different benefits including an excess gross stock premium.