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TRAIN drivers have overwhelmingly voted to accept a compromise deal to end their long-running dispute with Southern Rail.
Their union Aslef announced yesterday that 79.1 per cent backed the deal — which says trains should operate with an “on-board supervisor” in all but “exceptional circumstances” — on an 87.1 per cent turnout.
A bitter dispute has raged on Southern for more than 18 months over the company’s expansion of driver-only operation. Unions have said the practice compromises safety, disabled access and jobs.
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
