'I feel like I don't understand enough about why they're striking, but it's definitely making a massive impact, so I hope they get it sorted soon'.
Aslef has timed its strike around the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, which ends on Wednesday. It also coincides with several football fixtures.
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association union also has plans for much smaller scale strikes this week, including CrossCountry on 5 October, Great Western Railway on 6-7 October, and Avanti and c2c on Saturday, 8 October. She insisted it was "not about cutting jobs" but about "putting the passenger at the heart of the railway".Passengers will be wondering how long strikes will last.The RMT has already said it will re-ballot members for further strike action.
The Rail Delivery Group has insisted neither taxpayers nor passengers can be asked to pay more to plug the financial gap left by the pandemic - so reforms must be agreed to afford pay rises.
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