The government sent a letter to the union on Sunday dropping its request to make alterations to the trains dependent on a new enterprise agreement being finalised, and calling on the union to abandon Wednesday’s action. Multiple unions are involved in the negotiations for a new enterprise agreement, to replace the one that expired in May 2021.Ī separate fight continues over modifications to a fleet of mothballed Korean-built intercity trains the union believes is not yet safe to operate in the NSW rail network. “We’ve actually guaranteed them peace until the end of September, or until the enterprise agreement gets voted up, whichever comes first,” Mr Claassens said on Tuesday.
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Rail, Tram and Bus Union NSW secretary Alex Claassens promised the month of targeted rolling stoppages and bans would be suspended on Wednesday and said September would be free of industrial action on the NSW rail network. “Work from home or avoid the trip on the train tomorrow.” “Avoid all unnecessary travel and leave the capacity that is available on trains for those that really need it,” Mr Longland told Sydney radio 2GB on Tuesday. The T5 Cumberland line and and the T7 Olympic Park line will have no services. Inflation in the UK surged in May to its highest annual rate in 40 years, official data showed, piling pressure on the government to step up assistance for households facing a worsening cost-of-living crisis.Train services would be reduced to about a half-hour frequency on most lines, he said.
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“Some people do have sympathy with the striking workers, it’s not just train drivers and guards, these are railway staff across a lot of professions”, Brennan said, adding: “People say look the cost of living is such as going up at such a rate that people are entitled to a pay rise”.īut other commuters are frustrated with the disruptions. UK public is divided on their support for strikes. Only 45 percent of the whole network will be operating, and with that number of services cut to one fifth compared with a regular day. Pamphlets and newspapers are distributed at a picket line outside Waterloo Station in London Īl Jazeera’s Paul Brennan reported from the UK’s biggest and busiest station Waterloo, saying “extraordinary sight compared to normal” day. The strikes are the biggest dispute on the UK’s railway network since 1989, according to the RMT. Schools are warning that thousands of teenagers taking national exams will also be affected. The walkouts – also on Thursday and Saturday – risk causing significant disruption to major events including the Glastonbury music festival. “I absolutely deplore what they’re doing today and there is no excuse for taking people out on strike.”īut Mick Lynch, RMT’s general-secretary, described as “unacceptable” offers of below-inflation pay rises by both overground train operators and London Underground that runs the Tube in the capital.
“The people that are hurting are people who physically need to turn up for work, maybe on lower pay, perhaps the cleaners in hospitals,” he told Sky News broadcaster. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he “deplored” the strikes, which he said evoked the “bad old days of the 1970s”. Major stations were largely deserted on Tuesday morning, with only about 20 percent of passenger trains scheduled to run, forcing people to either work from home or find alternative routes into the office. Passengers queue for a bus outside Waterloo Station on the first day of the rail strike in London The government says it is not involved in the talks, but has warned that big raises will spark a wage-price spiral driving inflation even higher. The union accuses the Conservative government of refusing to give rail firms enough flexibility to offer a substantial pay increase. The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) says it will not accept rail firms’ offer of a 3 percent raise, which is far below the rate of inflation, currently running at 9 percent. Last-minute talks on Monday failed to make a breakthrough. But that is well below pre-COVID-19 levels, and train companies, which were kept afloat with government support during the past two years, are seeking to cut costs and staffing. There were almost 1 billion train journeys in the UK in the year to March. The dispute centres on pay, working conditions and job security as the UK’s railways struggle to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Tens of thousands of the UK’s railway workers began the network’s biggest strike action in more than 30 years, leaving commuters facing chaos.Ībout 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers and station staff were holding a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, with two more planned for Thursday and Saturday.
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