UK rail workers kicked off a month of strikes today over pay and conditions. The industrial action is causing travel chaos for passengers already blighted by snow disruption.
According to the UK’s biggest rail union, the RMT, 40,000 of its members across the country will strike this week after voting by 64 per cent to reject Network Rail’s latest offer, labelled “substandard” by RMT general secretary Mick Lynch.
This means that strike action will go ahead from this week until 8 January 2023 for both Network Rail and the 14 train operating companies under the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT).
According to the RMT, “The Network Rail offer included a 5 per
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