Rail Strike Staff At Nine Train Companies To Hold 24 Hour Strike In September Tssa Union Says Uk News

The industrial action is over pay and working conditions, the union said, and will also involve Network Rail, the owner of Britain’s rail infrastructure. TSSA said it was still in discussions with National Rail about a possible settlement that would avoid strike action. But union boss Manuel Cortes criticized the Grand Sapps government’s transport secretary on Wednesday morning, saying he was blocking real progress. Use Chrome browser for more accessible video player 2:59 Train passengers suffer fresh travel chaos as workers strike again in long-running dispute over pay and conditions. “The dead hand of Grant Shapps is unfortunately preventing the DfT train operators from making a revised, meaningful offer,” Mr Cortes said. “Frankly, he’s either sitting across the bargaining table with our union or he’s getting out of the way to allow the rail bosses to negotiate freely with us, as they have done in the past.” Train companies likely to be involved in this strike include TransPennine Express, West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, c2c, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Great Western Railway, LNER and Southeastern. Along with Network Rail, the TSSA said these train operators would be at the center of the September strike. This summer has been hit by a wave of strikes across many industries as workers protest low wages, job cuts and poor working conditions they say are a hangover from the pandemic. Earlier this summer, an RMT strike became the biggest British rail industrial action in 30 years. The TSSA strike followed shortly after, which it said was the first rail industry-wide action taken by the union in a generation. Now, with TSSA planning to strike again in September, Cortes called on the government to allow train operators to return to the bargaining table with a “revised deal that improves on the insulting 2% offer rejected earlier in the summer”. Unions across the country are trying to negotiate wage increases for their members that keep pace with rising inflation. Britain’s inflation rate hit a new 40-year high in August, inflicting more pain on cash-strapped households as the cost-of-living crisis deepens. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 10.1% in the 12 months to July, up from 9.4% in June and remaining at the highest level since February 1982, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

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The industrial action is over pay and working conditions, the union said, and will also involve Network Rail, the owner of Britain’s rail infrastructure. TSSA said it was still in discussions with National Rail about a possible settlement that would avoid strike action. But union boss Manuel Cortes criticized the Grand Sapps government’s transport secretary on Wednesday morning, saying he was blocking real progress. Use Chrome browser for more accessible video player 2:59 Train passengers suffer fresh travel chaos as workers strike again in long-running dispute over pay and conditions. “The dead hand of Grant Shapps is unfortunately preventing the DfT train operators from making a revised, meaningful offer,” Mr Cortes said. “Frankly, he’s either sitting across the bargaining table with our union or he’s getting out of the way to allow the rail bosses to negotiate freely with us, as they have done in the past.” Train companies likely to be involved in this strike include TransPennine Express, West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, c2c, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Great Western Railway, LNER and Southeastern. Along with Network Rail, the TSSA said these train operators would be at the center of the September strike. This summer has been hit by a wave of strikes across many industries as workers protest low wages, job cuts and poor working conditions they say are a hangover from the pandemic. Earlier this summer, an RMT strike became the biggest British rail industrial action in 30 years. The TSSA strike followed shortly after, which it said was the first rail industry-wide action taken by the union in a generation. Now, with TSSA planning to strike again in September, Cortes called on the government to allow train operators to return to the bargaining table with a “revised deal that improves on the insulting 2% offer rejected earlier in the summer”. Unions across the country are trying to negotiate wage increases for their members that keep pace with rising inflation. Britain’s inflation rate hit a new 40-year high in August, inflicting more pain on cash-strapped households as the cost-of-living crisis deepens. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 10.1% in the 12 months to July, up from 9.4% in June and remaining at the highest level since February 1982, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

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The industrial action is over pay and working conditions, the union said, and will also involve Network Rail, the owner of Britain’s rail infrastructure. TSSA said it was still in discussions with National Rail about a possible settlement that would avoid strike action. But union boss Manuel Cortes criticized the Grand Sapps government’s transport secretary on Wednesday morning, saying he was blocking real progress. Use Chrome browser for more accessible video player 2:59 Train passengers suffer fresh travel chaos as workers strike again in long-running dispute over pay and conditions. “The dead hand of Grant Shapps is unfortunately preventing the DfT train operators from making a revised, meaningful offer,” Mr Cortes said. “Frankly, he’s either sitting across the bargaining table with our union or he’s getting out of the way to allow the rail bosses to negotiate freely with us, as they have done in the past.” Train companies likely to be involved in this strike include TransPennine Express, West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, c2c, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Great Western Railway, LNER and Southeastern. Along with Network Rail, the TSSA said these train operators would be at the center of the September strike. This summer has been hit by a wave of strikes across many industries as workers protest low wages, job cuts and poor working conditions they say are a hangover from the pandemic. Earlier this summer, an RMT strike became the biggest British rail industrial action in 30 years. The TSSA strike followed shortly after, which it said was the first rail industry-wide action taken by the union in a generation. Now, with TSSA planning to strike again in September, Cortes called on the government to allow train operators to return to the bargaining table with a “revised deal that improves on the insulting 2% offer rejected earlier in the summer”. Unions across the country are trying to negotiate wage increases for their members that keep pace with rising inflation. Britain’s inflation rate hit a new 40-year high in August, inflicting more pain on cash-strapped households as the cost-of-living crisis deepens. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 10.1% in the 12 months to July, up from 9.4% in June and remaining at the highest level since February 1982, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

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The industrial action is over pay and working conditions, the union said, and will also involve Network Rail, the owner of Britain’s rail infrastructure. TSSA said it was still in discussions with National Rail about a possible settlement that would avoid strike action. But union boss Manuel Cortes criticized the Grand Sapps government’s transport secretary on Wednesday morning, saying he was blocking real progress. Use Chrome browser for more accessible video player 2:59 Train passengers suffer fresh travel chaos as workers strike again in long-running dispute over pay and conditions. “The dead hand of Grant Shapps is unfortunately preventing the DfT train operators from making a revised, meaningful offer,” Mr Cortes said. “Frankly, he’s either sitting across the bargaining table with our union or he’s getting out of the way to allow the rail bosses to negotiate freely with us, as they have done in the past.” Train companies likely to be involved in this strike include TransPennine Express, West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, c2c, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Great Western Railway, LNER and Southeastern. Along with Network Rail, the TSSA said these train operators would be at the center of the September strike. This summer has been hit by a wave of strikes across many industries as workers protest low wages, job cuts and poor working conditions they say are a hangover from the pandemic. Earlier this summer, an RMT strike became the biggest British rail industrial action in 30 years. The TSSA strike followed shortly after, which it said was the first rail industry-wide action taken by the union in a generation. Now, with TSSA planning to strike again in September, Cortes called on the government to allow train operators to return to the bargaining table with a “revised deal that improves on the insulting 2% offer rejected earlier in the summer”. Unions across the country are trying to negotiate wage increases for their members that keep pace with rising inflation. Britain’s inflation rate hit a new 40-year high in August, inflicting more pain on cash-strapped households as the cost-of-living crisis deepens. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 10.1% in the 12 months to July, up from 9.4% in June and remaining at the highest level since February 1982, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.