Rail workers given fresh offer in pay dispute

Rail workers person been fixed a caller wage connection by bid companies successful a bid to extremity long-running onslaught action.

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has made the caller connection to the RMT national pursuing talks implicit the past week.

The woody includes a backdated wage emergence of 5%, up from a erstwhile connection of 4% for 2022, and a 4% summation this year.

The RDG received a "mandate" from the government, which yet holds the purse strings, but immoderate statement hinges connected changes to moving conditions.

The RMT said its nationalist enforcement committee would present see the item of the offer.

There person been 16 days of onslaught enactment since June involving RMT members moving astatine some bid companies and Network Rail, with Network Rail members additionally striking betwixt Christmas Eve and 27 December.

Train drivers successful the RMT are besides owed to articulation members of the main drivers' union, Aslef, successful strikes connected 1 and 3 February.