GOVIA Thameslink Railway bosses and drivers’ union Aslef negotiators have reached a new deal to end the long-running dispute on Southern, they announced yesterday.
Aslef members will now get the chance to vote on the proposals aimed at resolving the row over unsafe driver-only trains.
Drivers rejected their negotiating team’s efforts to end the dispute in a ballot last month by just over 54 per cent on a 72 per cent turnout after the mooted pact was branded a “strike-breaker’s charter.”
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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


