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Daily Record
Daily Record
Politics
Chris McCall

Rail strikes in Scotland confirmed as RMT union blasts Tory ministers for stopping deal

The largest railway strike in 30 years will begin at midnight after Tory ministers were blamed for having "actively prevented" a deal being reached.

Thousands of RMT members will walk out on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday this week in the biggest outbreak of industrial action on the railways for a generation.

It means just five routes in Scotland will have trains running on June 21, 23, and 25 with large parts of the country cut off from the network completely.

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