More UK rail strikes to disrupt travel in December and January | Rail strikes

Rail passengers will face extra disruption in December and January throughout Britain after the RMT union introduced a recent sequence of 48-hour strikes.

1000’s of members of the RMT working for Community Rail and 14 practice working corporations will strike on 13-14 and 16-17 December, inflicting disruption within the run-up to Christmas. There might be an additional two strikes on 3-4 and 6-7 January.

The strike consists of essential signalling employees, whose absence is prone to imply solely a minority of companies run on principal strains whereas smaller strains haven’t any trains in any respect.

Warning of more strikes came on Tuesday when the union accused rail bosses of reneging on a promise to submit a written supply on the finish of two weeks of talks.

It ended hopes of a breakthrough within the long-running dispute over pay and dealing situations, after a sequence of strikes scheduled for early November have been called off on the eleventh hour.

A separate strike by practice drivers within the Aslef union may even halt many companies this Saturday 26 November.

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