Rail passengers the length and breadth of the UK face a summer of major disruption after workers voted for the biggest strike more than 25 years. As the Manchester Evening News reported last night, members of the RMT union backed industrial action over pay, conditions, 2,500 Network Rail maintenance job cuts and reforms that the union claims will lead to a wave of ticket office closures.
Walkouts could begin as soon as mid-June and, speaking to the Mirror, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch refused to rule out them lasting into next year - or escalating into a general strike. The union said it was the biggest endorsement for industrial action by railway workers since privatisation.
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