A TABLE and empty chairs were left outside ScotRail HQ yesterday in a flash-mob protest urging management back to talks to avert today’s strikes on the network.

Transport union RMT said it was “extraordinary” that ScotRail had “sabotaged” planned talks at conciliation service Acas by refusing to turn up yesterday.

General secretary Mick Cash said the union “has made repeated attempts to get talks moving and it makes no sense at all for the company to continue to blank us unless they are hell-bent on bulldozing through cuts to jobs and safety.”