A rail industry leader has indicated that crunch meetings today could still avert strikes which are set to throw the UK into transport chaos this week.
Yesterday Mr Shapps dismissed a call from the RMT for the Government to intervene as a ‘stunt’, saying the union had been ‘gunning’ for industrial action for weeks.
But ministers have also been accused of wanting the strikes to go ahead and doing little to resolve the dispute over pay, conditions and job losses.Labour called for the Government to step in to prevent the network ‘grinding to a halt’.fears that teachers and doctors could join themRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said the union had no choice but to act after the train operators had still not made a pay offer when talks broke up on Thursday.
‘We have to fight this because we haven’t had any pay rises, we are faced with thousands of job cuts and they want to rip up our terms and conditions in a form of hire and re-hire that is internal to the railway,’ he told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme. ‘If there is not a settlement we will continue our campaign. I think there are going to be many more unions balloting across the country because people can’t take it any more.’
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