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HUNDREDS of rail workers at three train-operating companies have voted for industrial action, TSSA has announced as the “summer of discontent” across the network gathers pace.
Staff at LNER and c2c, which operates Essex Thameside services, have backed strikes and action short of a strike, while Northern workers have endorsed action short of walkouts, the transport union confirmed on Wednesday.
Its members, who are also being balloted at Network Rail and other train companies, have already supported strikes at East Midlands Railway, CrossCountry and Avanti West Coast after years of deteriorating pay and working conditions.
TSSA head Manuel Cortes congratulated members, stressing they are “utterly determined to fight for their pay, jobs and conditions amid the escalating Tory cost-of-living crisis.”
Nearly seven in 10 of the union’s members at LNER backed strikes on a 63.9 per cent turnout, while a massive 88.9 per cent of their c2c counterparts did the same, on a 58.4 per cent turnout.
And about 60 per cent of TSSA members at Northern turned out to support action short of a strike by 83 per cent.
Dates for action will be announced soon, the union said.
