Train strikes: Aslef drivers announce new date
Train drivers will strike again on Friday 1 September and refuse to work overtime on Saturday 2 September, according to train union Aslef.
It’s the latest strike action over pay.
The overtime ban will coincide with a strike by other rail workers such as guards and station staff in the RMT union, in a separate despite.
The RMT also has a strike on Saturday, 26 August.
Aslef’s latest action follows a series of six-day overtime bans this summer, which have caused reductions in services and cancellations.
The companies affected are:
- Avanti West Coast
- Chiltern Railways
- c2c
- CrossCountry
- East Midlands Railway
- Greater Anglia
- GTR Great Northern Thameslink
- Great Western Railway
- Island Line
- LNER
- Northern Trains
- Southeastern
- Southern/Gatwick Express
- South Western Railway
- TransPennine Express
- West Midlands Trains.
Aslef’s general secretary Mick Whelan said the train companies and the government had “forced us into this place because they refuse to sit down and talk to us and have not made a fair and sensible pay offer to train drivers”.
He added: “Train drivers at these companies have not had a pay rise for four years – since 2019 – while inflation has rocketed.”