A TRAIN driver has warned that the Tories’ Minimum Service Levels laws are a huge mistake which will lead to train companies running dangerously busy services.

Aslef member Dawn Stewart, who walked out for the first time last year, said: “Train drivers like me have been taking strike action for a pay rise that reflects the rising cost of living, for better working conditions and for safety on the railways.”

She said the introduction of the legislation, which threatens striking workers with the sack for not returning to work, will make trains even less safe and have a “catastrophic impact” on the workplace by creating animosity between workers forced to cross a picket line and the rest who will lose wages.