The Latest Breaking News from RMT

Christmas rail strikes set to go ahead after RMT rejects offer

Deal contingent on reforms including ticket office closures and an increase in drivers controlling the doors on trains

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2022

Rail workers union RMT reject eight percent pay rise offer

More than 40,000 RMT members across Network Rail and 14 rail firms are due to walk out for eight separate days over Christmas

Manchester Evening News · Dec 4, 2022

Rail union rejects management offer of pay rise ahead of Christmas walk-out

Earlier today, rail employers made an offer to the biggest union in the industry in a bid to resolve a long-running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions

Daily Mirror · Dec 4, 2022

Rail union offered 8% pay rise in bid to stop crippling Christmas strikes

The RMT rail union has been offered a new pay offer in a bid to head off planned strikes that could wreak havoc over Christmas.

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2022

Nurses, Royal Mail and even coffin-makers: Every strike likely to affect UK by end of 2022

From nursing to postal deliveries, few public services will be unaffected by industrial action this winter

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2022

This winter of discontent will harden the feeling that the Tories have broken Britain

The cabinet is taking a dangerous gamble when it calculates that the public will blame the unions, not the government, for an advent calendar of strikes

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

Rail industry prays for a Christmas miracle to avert strikes

Time is running out for a deal to send threat of disruption into the sidings and keep holiday travel plans on track

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

Train strikes: Every date in December and January 2023

Widescale walkouts planned for eight dates

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2022

Nurses, Royal Mail and even coffin-makers: Every strike likely to affect UK by end of 2022

From nursing to postal deliveries, few public services will be unaffected by industrial action this winter

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2022

Roads ‘could come to a standstill’ as National Highways workers go on strike

The action will coincide with planned strikes by RMT members on the railways

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2022