train strike

The next three weeks to the new year seem like an advent calendar of disruption, as nurses, transport workers, postal workers, baggage handlers, and others have scheduled strikes. Credit: Mellina Shahrom These are all kinds of strike disruptions that we can expect. This is largely about pay. As prices rise, wages are not, on the whole, keeping up and statistically, that gap is greater for the public sector. Credit: Mellina Shahrom This is what is happening this week. There will be four days of rail disruption as 40,000 workers walk out. And more than 100,000 Royal Mail workers will participate in two days of strike action this week. As we are edging closer to Christmas, expect disruption to deliveries. Learner drivers are being urged to check if their practical driving test...

After a short break on 12 December, the election day, the long-term industrial action over the role of guard continued until 2th January 2020. Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT), which represents South Western Railway union members, and the South Western Railway (SWR) company have argued a long time about the issue: do the train driver or guard should conduct the door and responsible to the platform’s safety? Particularly in next year, new 90 trains would be launched to run. Johnson, a South Western Railway customer assistant at Waterloo station said to Westminster World: “so it should to have selection, driver or guard, on the peak hour. To be honest, it seems we don’t have enough money, I think the driver need somebody to assis

The next three weeks to the new year resemble an advent calendar of disruption

South Western Railway strike