Contemporary rail distress as new RMT walkout means three strikes in 4 days
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MT members working for 14 practice firms will stage a recent strike on June 2 within the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and situations, the union has introduced.
The strike on June 2 will see 20,000 railway employees in catering, practice managers and station employees take motion, affecting practice providers all through the nation.
It means there will probably be three rail strikes inside 4 days with Aslef practice drivers strolling out on 31 May and three June, the day of the FA Cup last and Epsom Derby.
In an announcement, the RMT stated the Rail Delivery Group’s earlier pay supply and related situations have been “unacceptable”.
”Despite contact between the events because the strike on 13 May, no new proposals have been formulated for the RMT to contemplate,” the union tweeted on Thursday.
RMT basic secretary Mick Lynch stated: “The Government is as soon as once more not permitting the Rail Delivery Group to make an improved supply that we are able to contemplate.
“Therefore, we’ve to pursue our industrial marketing campaign to win a negotiated settlement on jobs, pay and situations.
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“Ministers cannot just wish this dispute away.
“They underestimate the strength of feeling our members, who have just given us a new six-month strike mandate, continue to support the campaign and the action and are determined to see this through until we get an acceptable resolution.
“The Government now needs to unlock the RDG and allow them to make an offer that can be put to a referendum of our members.”
An RDG spokesperson stated: “In recent discussions with the RMT, we have continued to stand by the fair, industry-level dispute resolution proposal agreed line by line with their negotiating team, which would have resolved this dispute and given our lowest-paid staff a rise of up to 13 per cent.
“By calling more strike action, the RMT leadership have chosen to prolong this dispute without ever giving their members a chance to have a say on their own offer.
“Instead, they will be subject to yet more lost pay through industrial action, customers will suffer more disruption, and the industry will continue to suffer huge damage at a time when the railway is taking more than its fair share from taxpayers to keep trains running post-Covid.
“We remain open and willing to engage in national-level talks so that we can secure a pay rise for our people and the long-term future of an industry vital to Britain’s economy.”
Aslef’s basic secretary Mick Whelan stated there had been no conferences with the Government since early January regardless of persevering with impasse over the pay row.
The union has described a proposal of an 8 per cent wage rise over two years as “risible”.