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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

New June train strike date announced to add to passengers’ misery

Simon Calder

The UK’s biggest rail union, the RMT, has called another national strike on Friday 2 June – and demanded that the government “unlocks” the employers to reach a settlement in a long and bitter dispiute over pay and working arrangements.

The 24-hour walk-out by up to 20,000 staff will take place between the next two strikes by train drivers belonging to the Aslef union, on Wednesday 31 May and Saturday 3 June.

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