Train drivers across eight rail companies are due to stage a 24-hour strike later this month amid ongoing pay disputes.
Services will likely be disrupted as members of the Aslef union at Arriva Rail London, Chiltern Railways, Greater Anglia, Great Western, Hull Trains, LNER, Southeastern and West Midlands Trains stage a walkout on Saturday, July 30. Other strikes will also take place on Hull Trains on July 16 and 23 while drivers on Greater Anglia will strike on July 23.
It comes after the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) announced their plans to strike on July 27 while TSSA members on Avanti West will strike on the same day. Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan said: “We don’t want to go on strike – strikes are the result of a failure of negotiation – and this union, since I was elected general secretary in 2011, has only ever been on strike, until this year, for a handful of days.
