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Post by richard on Jan 9, 2023 19:52:45 GMT
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 17, 2023 10:18:23 GMT
ASLEF has just announced the latest strike dates for train drivers. These are Wednesday 1st February and Friday 3rd February. A pay offer was made to the union earlier this month but it hinged on changes to working practices. The Union has rejected the offer. Train Operating Companies will announce their strike day arrangements is due course. Services on Friday 2nd February and on the morning of Saturday 4th February will also be disrupted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64303591
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 17, 2023 12:27:09 GMT
ASLEF has just announced the latest strike dates for train drivers. These are Wednesday 1st February and Friday 3rd February. A pay offer was made to the union earlier this month but it hinged on changes to working practices. The Union has rejected the offer. Train Operating Companies will announce their strike day arrangements is due course. Services on Friday 2nd February and on the morning of Saturday 4th February will also be disrupted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64303591The strikes on 1st and 3rd February will affect the following companies: - Avanti West Coast - Chiltern Railways - Cross Country Trains - East Midlands Railway - Great Western Railway - Greater Anglia - GoVia Thameslink Railway (Great Northern Railway, Thameslink, Southern Railway and Gatwick Express) - London North Eastern Railway - Northern Trains - Southeastern Railway - South Western Railway (depot drivers) and SWR Island Line - TransPennine Express - West Midlands Trains including London Northwestern Railway ASLEF has reached agreement with the following companies so their trains will be operating normally. - Freight operators including DB Cargo, Freightliner Heavy Haul, Freightliner Intermodal, GB Railfreight - Eurostar - Grand Central - Hull Trains - Merseyrail - MTR Elizabeth Line - Nexus (Tyne & Wear Metro) - PRE Metro Operations (Stourbridge Shuttle) - Scotrail - Transport for Wales In addition ASLEF has received an offer from Arriva Rail London (London Overground) and has put this to its members with a recommendation to accept.
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 17, 2023 19:20:57 GMT
RMT has just announced strike action for the same two days (1/3 February).
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jan 17, 2023 23:00:16 GMT
RMT has just announced strike action for the same two days (1/3 February). no surprise
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 18, 2023 8:37:49 GMT
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jan 18, 2023 10:41:06 GMT
Some things never change ...
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 27, 2023 18:41:46 GMT
ASLEF has just announced the latest strike dates for train drivers. These are Wednesday 1st February and Friday 3rd February. A pay offer was made to the union earlier this month but it hinged on changes to working practices. The Union has rejected the offer. Train Operating Companies will announce their strike day arrangements is due course. Services on Friday 2nd February and on the morning of Saturday 4th February will also be disrupted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64303591Train Operating Companies that are affected by the February strike action (not all are) are now releasing details of the limited services that will operate on Wednesday 1st and Friday 3rd February, and also disruption to services that may occur on Friday 2nd and Saturday 4th. An important exception is London Overground: ASLEF has reached a pay deal with Arriva Rail London so Overground services will operate normally, although they may be busier than usual on certain routes.
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Post by southlondon413 on Jan 27, 2023 18:46:05 GMT
ASLEF has just announced the latest strike dates for train drivers. These are Wednesday 1st February and Friday 3rd February. A pay offer was made to the union earlier this month but it hinged on changes to working practices. The Union has rejected the offer. Train Operating Companies will announce their strike day arrangements is due course. Services on Friday 2nd February and on the morning of Saturday 4th February will also be disrupted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64303591Train Operating Companies that are affected by the February strike action (not all are) are now releasing details of the limited services that will operate on Wednesday 1st and Friday 3rd February, and also disruption to services that may occur on Friday 2nd and Saturday 4th. An important exception is London Overground: ASLEF has reached a pay deal with Arriva Rail London so Overground services will operate normally, although they may be busier than usual on certain routes. I’ve heard that the government is now allowing individual TOCs to make agreements with staff so there could be some resolutions coming down the line.
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Post by richard on Feb 16, 2023 17:52:59 GMT
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Feb 18, 2023 15:39:08 GMT
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Post by southlondon413 on Feb 18, 2023 19:43:25 GMT
It’s a very difficult issue but exactly as Calder writes both sides are being foolish. The RMT are frankly living in cuckoo land if they think they will ever get an unconditional offer with no changes to anything and the RDG are just as ridiculous to think they will expect an industry that is light years behind other sectors to suddenly modernise overnight. Honestly the industry has to modernise and adapt to these ever changing times or it risks taking us back to the Beeching days but it has to be a slower paced project, you can’t build Rome in a day. There is so much danger that the longer this lingers on the more the railways risk alienating passengers further and we end up like the US, a country that once had a thriving rail network cut down to a minuscule size.
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Post by vjaska on Feb 18, 2023 20:43:58 GMT
It’s a very difficult issue but exactly as Calder writes both sides are being foolish. The RMT are frankly living in cuckoo land if they think they will ever get an unconditional offer with no changes to anything and the RDG are just as ridiculous to think they will expect an industry that is light years behind other sectors to suddenly modernise overnight. Honestly the industry has to modernise and adapt to these ever changing times or it risks taking us back to the Beeching days but it has to be a slower paced project, you can’t build Rome in a day. There is so much danger that the longer this lingers on the more the railways risk alienating passengers further and we end up like the US, a country that once had a thriving rail network cut down to a minuscule size. Are we not guessing here as to whether it’s a serious final statement from the RMT or whether it’s similar to the nurses where they start with what could be described as an unrealistic offer when in fact, it was just a starting salvo. The government paints a picture of having no idea how negotiations work so I’m not surprised the RMT is taking a hardline position - last offer was 5% IIRC
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Post by southlondon413 on Feb 18, 2023 21:15:17 GMT
It’s a very difficult issue but exactly as Calder writes both sides are being foolish. The RMT are frankly living in cuckoo land if they think they will ever get an unconditional offer with no changes to anything and the RDG are just as ridiculous to think they will expect an industry that is light years behind other sectors to suddenly modernise overnight. Honestly the industry has to modernise and adapt to these ever changing times or it risks taking us back to the Beeching days but it has to be a slower paced project, you can’t build Rome in a day. There is so much danger that the longer this lingers on the more the railways risk alienating passengers further and we end up like the US, a country that once had a thriving rail network cut down to a minuscule size. Are we not guessing here as to whether it’s a serious final statement from the RMT or whether it’s similar to the nurses where they start with what could be described as an unrealistic offer when in fact, it was just a starting salvo. The government paints a picture of having no idea how negotiations work so I’m not surprised the RMT is taking a hardline position - last offer was 5% IIRC It’s difficult to tell from the RMT but I wouldn’t be surprised. Ultimately if this is the line then it’s unlikely our railways will ever be modernised. We might have given the world the railways but we sure didn’t move on from the Victorian work practices on it. Last offer was 9% over two years and up to 14% for the lowest paid workers. But the RMT didn’t even put the offer to its members and it national executive committee rejected the offer which to me seems wrong. At least allow the members who are the ones in need of a payrise a vote on their future.
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Post by ThinLizzy on Mar 7, 2023 20:05:49 GMT
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