UK rail strikes set to resume in early October

Rail strikes are set to renew within the UK in October after a number of days of commercial motion have been cancelled by unions within the wake of the dying of Queen Elizabeth II earlier this month.

The RMT union has introduced a 24-hour stoppage on Saturday, 1 October, in an ongoing dispute with rail bosses over pay, job safety and dealing circumstances, which noticed around 40,000 railway workers walking out during the summer within the largest UK rail strike for greater than 30 years. 

Practice drivers union Aslef may also maintain strike motion on 1 and 5 October at 12 working firms in a separate pay dispute.

RMT members had been as a result of strike once more on 15 and 17 September however the union cancelled these two days’ of motion following the Queen’s dying on 8 September.

However following the Queen’s state funeral on Monday (19 September), the RMT was fast to announce its newest 24-hour strike after it “acquired no additional gives from the rail business to assist come to a negotiated settlement”.

RMT common secretary Mick Lynch stated: “Transport staff are becoming a member of a wave of strike motion on 1 October, sending a transparent message to the federal government and employers that working folks is not going to settle for continued assaults on pay and dealing circumstances at a time when large enterprise income are at an all-time excessive. 

“The summer season of solidarity we now have seen will proceed into the autumn and winter if employers and the federal government proceed to refuse staff affordable calls for.

“We wish a settlement to those disputes the place our members and their households can get a sq. deal and we is not going to relaxation till we get a passable consequence.”

The RMT is in dispute with Community Rail and 14 practice working firms: Chiltern Railways, Cross Nation Trains, Larger Anglia, LNER, East Midlands Railway, c2c, Nice Western Railway, Northern Trains, South Japanese, South Western Railway, TransPennine Categorical, Avanti West Coast, West Midlands Trains and GTR (together with Gatwick Categorical).

Aslef members, who had been as a result of strike on 15 September, will now take motion on 1 and 5 October at 12 operators: Avanti West Coast, Chiltern Railways, Cross Nation, Larger Anglia, Nice Western Railway, Hull Practice, LNER, London Overground, Northern Trains, Southeastern, TransPennine Categorical and West Midlands Trains.

Different transport staff from Arriva Rail London, Hull Trains and First Group Southwest buses are additionally as a result of go on strike on 1 October in their very own separate disputes.