BREAKING: Rail workers union RMT reject eight percent pay rise offer
The RMT has rejected an offer from the Rail Delivery Group aimed at heading off more strikes, the union announced.
Read more: Police make 14 arrests after Animal Rebellion campaigners stage sit-in protest at Mana restaurant “With revenue stuck at 20 per cent below pre-pandemic levels and many working practices unchanged in decades, taxpayers who have contributed £1,800 per household to keep the railway running in recent years, will balk at continuing to pump billions of pounds a year into an industry that desperately needs to move forward with long-overdue reforms and that alienates potential customers with sustained industrial action.
To meet the growing demand for weekend leisure travel, particularly on Sundays, current voluntary and ad-hoc working arrangements across the railways will be 'formalised', said the RDG. It added: “Where it doesn’t already happen, a new contractual commitment for staff to work rostered Sundays, either as part of their core working week, or as an additional working day remunerated at the existing rate set out in company-specific agreements.
They included up to 600 armed forces personnel and 700 staff from the Government’s specialist Surge and Rapid Response Team, as well as from other parts of the Civil Service. Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi said it was the 'right and responsible thing to do' as ministers sought to minimise the disruption to the public.
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