Rail engineers to stage series of 48-hour strikes in March over pay, RMT says

Mick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT, said: ‘Balfour Beatty need to use some of their excess wealth to reward their workers properly.’ Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA

Railway engineering workers are to stage a series of 48-hour strikes in a dispute over pay, the RMT union has said.

More than 100 workers at the infrastructure company Balfour Beatty will walk out from 3-5 March, 10-12 March and 17-19 March, after rejecting a 5.5% pay offer.