GUARDS and drivers on Southern trains are set to stage fresh strike action next week in the long-running dispute over driver-only operation, the RMT union announced yesterday.
There will be a 24-hour stoppage by guards on Monday, followed by a walkout by drivers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
RMT is angry at its “exclusion” from talks between train drivers’ union Aslef and the company and is pressing for a seat at the negotiating table.
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
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