When are the train strikes and what is the dispute about?

Rail passengers are advised to debar non-essential question connected Tuesday and Wednesday, arsenic strikes proceed to impact services.

Industrial enactment - successful a quality implicit pay, occupation information and moving conditions - besides takes spot implicit the festive period, including Christmas Eve.

The RMT obstruction workers' national has announced strikes on:

Previous strikes by the RMT person had a large interaction connected services passim England, Scotland and Wales.

The bid drivers' union, Aslef, is besides successful a quality implicit wage - though currently, nary further walkouts are planned.

Security unit connected the Eurostar bid work are acceptable to onslaught for 4 days successful the run-up to Christmas.

The walkouts are planned for 16, 18, 22 and 23 December.

Eurostar said it would update customers arsenic soon arsenic imaginable if determination was immoderate interaction connected services.

The RMT said the onslaught would "severely affect" passengers.

The unions are successful quality with the authorities and obstruction companies astir pay, occupation cuts and changes to presumption and conditions.

But the obstruction manufacture is nether unit to prevention money, aft the pandemic near a spread successful its finances. Bosses accidental reforms request to beryllium agreed, to spend wage increases and modernise the railway.

Network Rail is readying to chopped 1,900 jobs arsenic portion of changes to the mode its attraction teams enactment - though it insists astir of this could beryllium achieved by radical leaving voluntarily.

The RMT disagrees with immoderate of the changes and wants a warrant of nary compulsory occupation losses.

On Monday, 5 December, the RMT rejected an connection from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) - which represents bid companies - that included a:

In exchange, it wanted a fig of changes to existent moving practices, including:

The RMT said the proposals were unacceptable.

The RDG connection is abstracted to negotiations with Network Rail, which employs astir fractional the workers successful the dispute.

Network Rail had besides made an offer, including a wage emergence of up to 9% implicit 2 years - but the national is urging members to cull it.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has estimated the mean wage of obstruction workers successful 2022 arsenic £45,919, based connected 5 antithetic occupation categories.

If drivers are excluded, its estimation is £39,518.

The RMT said that fig was inactive excessively precocious due to the fact that it excluded obstruction cleaning unit who are not categorised arsenic obstruction workers by the ONS.

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