• Avanti West Coast staff vote “overwhelmingly” for strike action in dispute over wages, job security, and working conditions.
• Balloting will end at a number of other train companies next Monday.
•  Communication Workers Union conducting vote among its 115,000 members at Royal Mail.

Following votes in favour of industrial action at Royal Mail and train firm Avanti West Coast, strike action might spread across the UK’s trains and postal services during the summer.

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The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) announced on Wednesday that station employees at Avanti West Coast voted “overwhelmingly” for strike action in a dispute over wages, job security, and working conditions.

The strike would involve a few hundred employees at stations along the west coast mainline, but Manuel Cortes, the union’s general secretary, warned ministers “should pay heed” because the outcome was “just the beginning.”

Next Monday, balloting will end at a number of other train companies. In the event that there is no breakthrough in the present negotiations between rail corporations and unions, TSSA members may engage in strike action beginning in mid-July.

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Last week, around 40,000 members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers participated in three days of nationwide strike action, effectively closing down a large portion of the network.

Separately, the union Unite announced on Wednesday that managers at approximately 1,000 Royal Mail delivery locations had voted in favour of industrial action over job cutbacks, wages, and working conditions, and would announce strike dates “in the coming days” if a settlement could not be reached.

In a salary issue, the Communication Workers Union is also conducting a vote among its 115,000 members at Royal Mail in preparation for what it claims might be “the largest strike of the summer.”