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Members of the Aslef union on a picket line near to Leeds train station on June 3, 2023
TRAIN drivers fighting for their first pay rise in four years will refuse to work overtime in their fifth week-long ban since May.
Aslef warned services at 15 rail companies in England will be seriously affected from Monday August 7 to Saturday August 12 due to chronic understaffing.
General secretary Mick Whelan said: “We don’t want to take this action, because we don’t want people to be inconvenienced.
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