Rail operators urge commuters not to travel unless necessary next week as strikes loom ahead June 15, 2022 Rail operators are urging commuters not to travel unless necessary as thousands of workers are set to walk out next week. More than 40,000 members of the RMT union will strike on 21, 23 and 25 June over job cuts and salaries. South Western Railway (SWR) told customers to expect “severe disruption,” encouraging them to [...]
Starmer says Johnson wants rail strikes so he can ‘feed off the division’ June 15, 2022 Boris Johnson wants this month’s widespread rail strikes to go ahead so he can “feed off the division” they will cause, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Starmer said during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) that “I don’t want the strikes to go ahead”, after a series of Tory attacks pinning the blame for the [...]
UK could face ‘summer of discontent’ as new railway strike to be balloted June 14, 2022 The UK could face a “summer of discontent” as members of the union TSSA working for Network Rail are to vote on a potential strike action. The TSSA announced 6,000 of its members will vote whether to walk out over pay, conditions and job security. Opened today, the ballot will close on 11 July and [...]
Tech week a chance to celebrate London and the City’s most powerful urge: competition June 13, 2022 It is more than a little tempting to think at the moment that nothing in Britain works very well. Anybody with tickets to the Rolling Stones or the cricket in Headingley next week will face a rail strike, families looking to get away for a well-deserved break will need to carry a week’s supplies just [...]
Trade body hits out at government plans to break summer strikes with agency workers June 12, 2022 A potential government plan to break a series of summer strikes by allowing employers to hire agency staff has been criticised as the “wrong policy” by a recruitment business body. Neil Carberry, Chief Executive of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), said the newly touted plans puts “agency staff and agencies in a completely unfair [...]
‘Summer of discontent’ looms as THIRD rail union threatens to strike and plunge country into travel mayhem June 10, 2022 The country has been plunged into further travel mayhem with rail drivers union TSSA set to join the train alongside RMT and Aslef. The organisation served notice to ballot hundreds of staff for strike action at Avanti West Coast, over pay, conditions and job security. Transport and Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) General Secretary Manuel Cortes [...]
Train driver union announces additional rail strike over pay June 9, 2022 Train driver union Aslef has announced its members working for Hull Trains, Greater Anglia and Croydon Tramlink will strike at the end of June over salaries. Hull Trains train drivers will strike for the whole of 26 June, while Greater Anglia’s workers will walk out on 23 June, which coincides with the second of a [...]
Labour throws weight behind biggest railway strike in decades: ‘We are on the rail workers’ side’ June 9, 2022 Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy has said she supports the strikes by rail workers in the coming weeks if the Government fails to address their concerns. Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, she said: “We want to avoid the strikes and we’re on the public’s side on this. “We’re also on the rail workers’ [...]
Sadiq Khan blames govt funding for ‘extremely frustrating and disappointing’ tube strike as Unite joins RMT walk-out June 8, 2022 City Hall lambasted the government’s refusal to grant Transport for London (TfL) long-term backing, blaming it for indirectly causing the tube strike scheduled for 21 June. The strike is the latest disruption to affect the Transport for London (TfL) network after 4,000 tube workers walked out on Monday. “At the heart of this industrial action [...]
Travel mayhem to hit Londoners as another union joins tube strike June 8, 2022 Travel mayhem is expected to hit Londoners as members of the union Unite working for Transport for London (TfL) and London Underground are set to join the strike called by the RMT union for 21 June. The union announced that more than 1,000 of its members will join the 10,000 workers striking over job cuts [...]