What is the rail dispute all about and when will the next strikes be?
Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. All out: Mick Whelan, general secretary of the train drivers’ union, Aslef, being interviewed outside London Euston station on a previous strike day Unions involved in disputes must reballot members every six months on continuing with industrial action. Were the dispute simply a question of the percentage pay increase train drivers should get, it would probably have been settled months ago – or never reached the stage of industrial action. The industrial action has been called for what Aslef described as the train operators’ “persistent failure to comply with existing agreements” and is unrelated to the wider dispute. The prime minister is said to be “disappointed” that train operators did not implement minimum service levels during the last national industrial action.
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