Train strikes: 20,000 RMT railway employees to stroll out on eve of FA Cup Final

RMT members working for 14 practice corporations will stage a recent strike on 2 June of their long-running dispute over pay, jobs and circumstances, the union introduced.

The strike will see 20,000 workers in catering, stations and dealing as practice managers take motion, affecting practice providers all through the nation.

Thousands of passengers will face disruption together with these planning to go to the FA Cup closing between Manchester City and Manchester United at Wembley and the Epsom Derby on 3 June.

The RMT stated it discovered the Rail Delivery Group’s (RDG) earlier provide and related circumstances “unacceptable”.

“Despite contact between the parties since the strike on 13 May, no new proposals have been formulated for the RMT to consider,” the union tweeted immediately.

RMT normal secretary Mick Lynch added: “The Government is once again not allowing the Rail Delivery Group to make an improved offer that we can consider.

“Therefore, we’ve got to pursue our industrial marketing campaign to win a negotiated settlement on jobs, pay and circumstances.

“Ministers cannot just wish this dispute away.

“They underestimate the power of feeling our members, who’ve simply given us a brand new six-month strike mandate, proceed to help the marketing campaign and the motion and are decided to see this by way of till we get an appropriate decision.

“The Government now needs to unlock the RDG and allow them to make an offer that can be put to a referendum of our members.”

Train drivers are additionally hanging in coming weeks. Members of Aslef will stroll out on 31 May and three June, the day of the FA Cup Final at Wembley.

Meanwhile, an RDG spokesperson blamed the union’s management for selecting to “prolong this dispute without ever giving their members a chance to have a say on their own offer”.

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“In recent discussions with the RMT, we have continued to stand by the fair, industry-level dispute resolution proposal agreed line by line with their negotiating team, which would have resolved this dispute and given our lowest-paid staff a rise of up to 13%.

“Instead, they will be subject to yet more lost pay through industrial action, customers will suffer more disruption, and the industry will continue to suffer huge damage at a time when the railway is taking more than its fair share from taxpayers to keep trains running post-COVID.

“We stay open and keen to have interaction in national-level talks in order that we are able to safe a pay rise for our individuals and the long-term way forward for an trade very important to Britain’s financial system.”