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UK: Problems with rail routes – railway workers strike

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UK: Problems with rail routes – railway workers strike

Train traffic in Englandas railroad workers strike again for higher wages and better working conditions, and strikes continue across Britain.

Railway companies have announced that there are many problems, some of them are forced to cancel all their services.

This is the second rail strike in the UK in three days. On Wednesday, they participated in the mobilization of teachers and civil servants, the largest strike to take place in the country in a decade.

Unions Aslef And RNTwho went on strike today are demanding higher wages and better working conditions, while Britain is facing inflation that has been in excess of 10% for months.

Representatives of the railway companies criticized the unions for rejecting their proposal to raise the wages of drivers by 8% within two years.

“They are asking us to abandon the collective labor agreement,” reacted Simon Weller Aslef trade union. “It was obvious that we would reject this offer. It was made to fail,” he added.

“We hoped that Aslef leaders would participate constructively in the negotiations, and not organize new useless strikes,” he commented. Rail Delivery Group representing railway companies.

“We can only apologize for the concern,” he added.

Many sectors in the UK are on strike to protest the rising cost of living. Nursing staff will go on strike again next Monday after the nurses’ union held its first mobilization since its formation in December.

The mobilization, unprecedented since the strikes of the 1980s under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has the support of citizens. But the conservative government of Rishi Sunak remains adamant and wants to pass a law restricting the right to strike.

In an interview last Thursday evening on TalkTV, Mr. Sunak he stated that he “would like to give the medical staff a big pay raise” if he could.

He also calculated that the government has already given “record amounts” to the National Health System (NHS), despite the crisis.

Author: newsroom

Source: Kathimerini

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