Aslef drivers at 5 prepare operators vote in favour of extra strikes
Train drivers at 5 rail operators have voted to proceed taking strike motion for six months within the long-running dispute over pay and situations, it was revealed in the present day.
Aslef stated its members on Chiltern Railways, c2c, East Midlands Railway, Northern and TransPennine Express had overwhelmingly backed carrying on with motion.
Unions concerned in disputes should reballot their members each six months on persevering with with industrial motion – and the impasse has nonetheless not but been damaged.
It comes only one week after rail companies returned to regular on February 7 after a wave of strikes and different types of industrial motion by prepare drivers of their dispute.
Services throughout Britain had been crippled by a sequence of walkouts and a nine-day ban on additional time, which impacted trains run by the likes of LNER and Avanti West Coast.
Passengers at London Waterloo railway station over the past Aslef strike on January 30, 2024
None of the prepare firms affected by the newest strikes used new laws geared toward making certain a minimal stage of service throughout strikes.
Mick Whelan, basic secretary of Aslef stated in the present day: ‘These outcomes present – but once more – a transparent rejection by prepare drivers of the ridiculous provide put to us in April final 12 months by the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) on behalf of the prepare working firms with whom we’re in dispute.
‘The RDG knew the provide can be rejected as a result of we had instructed them {that a} land seize for all of the phrases and situations we’ve negotiated through the years can be unacceptable.
‘Since then our members have voted, repeatedly, for strikes. That’s why Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, is being disingenuous when he says that provide ought to have been put to members.
‘Drivers clearly would not vote for industrial motion, time and again and once more, in the event that they thought that was a great provide. They do not.
‘That provide was useless within the water in April final 12 months – and I believe Mr Harper is aware of that.’
MailOnline contacted the RDG and Department for Transport for remark in the present day.
