- UK rail strikes are impossible to avoid amid government debacle, union chief says.
- Manuel Cortes, the chairman of the TSSA union, stated that it will be more difficult to avert a wave of rail strikes in the UK this summer due to the government’s state of disarray.
- This indicated that he was unlikely to revisit the budget agreement reached in the fall of last year so that government agencies could afford more lavish compensation.
Manuel Cortes, the chairman of the TSSA union, stated on Wednesday that it will be more difficult to avert a wave of rail strikes in the UK this summer due to the government’s current state of disarray.
The TSSA, whose members include rail managers and supervisors in control centres, ticket officers, and station gatekeepers, will disclose the results of strike ballots about salary, job security, and working conditions at six train operating firms and Network Rail within the next week.
Its members at Avanti West Coast, Cross Country, and East Midlands have already voted in favour of strike action, and on Wednesday, the union planned to release the results of ballots at C2C, Northern, and LNER.
Following the first national strike in decades by the RMT union, which paralysed a significant portion of the British rail network, TSSA-led strikes would exacerbate the difficulties faced by British travellers this summer.
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