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Members of the Aslef union on a picket line at Euston station in London. Picture date: Friday September 1, 2023.
A ROLLING programme of strikes by train drivers continues this week as their union Aslef fights for a pay deal.
The union is mounting a week-long rolling programme of 24-hour strikes against 16 train operators, and drivers at c2c and Greater Anglia will be out today.
Drivers are also implementing an overtime ban, which disrupts timetables because rail operators employ insufficient drivers to meet their schedules.
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
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
