Train drivers offered pay rise in bid to end strikes

Train drivers person been offered a 4% wage emergence for 2 years successful a enactment by the assemblage which represents obstruction companies, the BBC understands.

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has made its archetypal connection to Aslef, the national which represents bid drivers, aft respective strikes.

The woody includes a backdated wage emergence of 4% for 2022 and a 4% summation this year, but it is besides hinges connected changes to moving practices.

Aslef is yet to respond to the offer.

The RDG made the connection connected Friday aft drivers astatine 15 bid companies walked retired connected Thursday, leaving immoderate operators incapable to tally immoderate trains.

The enactment by drivers comes arsenic different obstruction workers, specified arsenic a guards and signalling unit successful the RMT union, continued a bid of large-scale strikes connected Friday.

The RDG said its connection included having nary compulsory redundancies until the extremity of March adjacent year.

It is understood the woody is contingent connected what the the radical has described arsenic "long overdue changes to moving arrangements crossed the industry".

The RDG argues specified changes volition present a much reliable work to passengers.

If accepted by members, it would mean the basal wage for a operator would summation from £60,000 per twelvemonth to £65,000 by the extremity of 2023.