Train drivers have been offered an 8pc pay rise to break the rail strike deadlock.
Operators this afternoon wrote to drivers’ union Aslef offering their members a 4pc backdated pay rise for 2022 and a 4pc increase for 2023.
It would take the average train driver salary from £60,000 to £65,000.
The offer, which has been signed off by the Department for Transport, comes with strings attached, however.
They will be required to be available to work on Sundays – an especially important requirement as passenger numbers on Sundays are already well ahead pre-pandemic levels.
More than 10,000 train drivers went on strike on Thursday, causing the most significant disruption to rail services since the start of the worst industrial dispute on the train network for a generation.
Aslef has not yet responded to the offer.
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Source: telegraph.co.uk