SCOTLAND’S train drivers could strike for the first time in more than 20 years following a “derisory” pay offer from ScotRail, Aslef warned today.

The train drivers’ union met with the firm’s management to push for an increase that addressed the growing cost-of-living crisis, but the offer it received was “well short of what drivers expected,” Aslef said. 

The company, which returned to public ownership on April 1, is taking “no account” of skyrocketing inflation, despite members’ sacrifices throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, union organiser Kevin Lindsay said.