In London, the train drivers announced a strike due to the non-increase in salary and the non-fulfillment of their demands. A three-day strike by train drivers against the national rail operator is expected to literally bring life to a standstill, particularly in London.
London Underground train drivers have announced that the strike will continue until May 9. Aslif Union is of the opinion that driver salaries have not been increased for 5 years. The train drivers are on strike over their long-running pay dispute. He warned of this strike a few weeks ago.
In its report on the train strike, The Guardian said most trains on major commuter routes to and from London were not running in south-east England on Tuesday.
Drivers in the Asliffe union are holding a 24-hour strike at every English operator from Tuesday to Thursday, while drivers have imposed a nationwide overtime ban from Monday as part of a long-running pay dispute. The train drivers have been refusing to work overtime for a week.
Officials have advised rail passengers to check train availability before leaving, as the overtime ban would cause further disruption and shorten timetables in various parts of the country where operators rely on voluntary shifts to run certain services.
Most carriers will not run any trains during the strike, meaning some cross-border train services to Wales and Scotland will be affected at weekends.
Tuesday’s strike will hit passengers in the capital, London, the most. The strike will halt all services on Great Northern and Gatwick Express. And Greater Anglia will also stop some trains on some routes on Thameslink, South East, South and South West.
Train operators have urged people not to attempt to travel on the days of the strike, which is not inevitable. A group representing firms in the capital London’s Business LDN said the impact of the strikes would be felt by more people after the bank holiday on Monday.
Driver strike on Wednesday will shut down many long-distance trains to Wales and Scotland, as well as services in the Midlands Train drivers on the West Coast, Chiltern Railway, Cross Country and East Midlands Railway will strike for 24 hours today. on the Great Western Railway and West.
No other trains are planned to operate in London apart from GWR, which will also operate a very limited service. Drivers will also strike on the Heathrow Express, which will cut airport timetables in half, although Elizabeth Line trains will run to the airport.
Much of the north will be hit by a strike by train drivers on Thursday with no trains on the Northern or TransPennine Express and reduced LNER services to London, the North East of England and Scotland.
Aslef said drivers would continue to strike for better pay, with some of its members now five years without a pay rise.
The prospect of summer travel chaos intensified on Friday as London Underground workers voted for a series of strikes.
Government ministers believe the RMT, which is required to give two weeks’ notice of strike action, will target the school summer holidays for further strike action, with breaks planned for the third or fourth weekend of July.
London Underground workers went on strike on Tuesday, the first day of a national rail strike, bringing the capital to a standstill and costing hundreds of thousands of people as overnight economic activity ground to a halt.
The national rail strike is about pay, jobs and working conditions, while the TfL strike is about pensions and job cuts. London Underground workers won an 8.4% pay rise in March but say it’s not enough.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “Transport for London and the Mayor of London need to seriously consider their plans to cut hundreds of jobs and take the hard-earned pensions of workers who serve Londoners every day.”
Ahead of the third week of nationwide rail strikes, authorities have issued a fresh warning for commuters not to travel. Many people do not want to give up their planned weekend getaway.
It is likely that on the third day of the strike, only a fifth of train services will be running and half of the tracks will be closed. Forty thousand RMT members and workers from 13 train carriers across the rail network are walking out for the third day this week.
It is reported that as a result of the train strike, many commuters were able to avoid the disruption caused by the strike on Tuesday and Thursday by working from home.
