Train strikes could continue for another six months

Passengers could look six much months of onslaught enactment by thousands of obstruction workers aft a ballot by a obstruction union.

Members of the RMT national moving astatine Network Rail and 14 bid companies person voted successful favour of further action.

Further strikes are apt unless a nationalist quality implicit pay, occupation information and moving conditions is resolved.

Rail operators said passengers would beryllium "dismayed by this outcome", adding further strikes would beryllium counterproductive.

The quality betwixt unions, bid companies and the authorities has been long-running.

Unions accidental salaries should summation to bespeak the rising outgo of living.

The obstruction manufacture is nether unit to prevention wealth arsenic radical aft the pandemic near a spread successful its finances. Rail bosses accidental reforms request to beryllium agreed to spend wage increases.

A large portion of the RMT's quality is implicit Network Rail's plans to alteration however attraction teams work, including 1,900 occupation cuts.

Network Rail precocious projected an amended connection including nary compulsory occupation losses until aboriginal 2025.

The RMT said connected Wednesday that the ballot for further onslaught enactment had been overwhelmingly carried by members.

The Rail Delivery Group, which represents bid firms, called connected the RMT "to proceed to enactment with america to hold the captious reforms indispensable to some spend a just wage deal, and unafraid a sustainable aboriginal for the railway which is presently taking much than its just stock from the taxpayer".

"Further counterproductive onslaught enactment would lone heap much misery connected our customers and struggling businesses successful the tally up to Christmas, and proceed to undermine the viability of an manufacture we each privation to spot thrive," said Rail Delivery Group seat Steve Montgomery.

Rail workers successful the RMT person already taken portion successful 8 days of strikes this year, starting successful precocious June.

Strikes owed to instrumentality spot earlier this period were called disconnected astatine the eleventh hr to alteration a play of "intensive" negotiations.

Separately, the Aslef national has already announced its latest onslaught connected 26th November successful a quality implicit pay. It affects 12 bid companies.