"I appreciate it's a controversial thing because there are a lot of people who are in worse conditions, who are lower paid than us. But the argument we're trying to make is that actually, it should be a high-wage economy, we should be levelling up."
Standing on the picket line outside Manchester Victoria station, Dalbir Dhillon told the Manchester Evening News exactly why he felt he had to join the national rail strikes today. "Why are we being attacked? We're not even asking for inflation rate numbers, we're asking for a reasonable settlement", he said.
"But it's not just about money. It's also about what's happening in society, we're having attacks on jobs, we're having maintenance workers jobs scrapped.
