The summit on Thursday is described as a 'stock take' with little prospect of any new pay offers being put forward after a 9 per cent pay rise was turned down
Rail minister Huw Merriman is meeting representatives of the RMT union, the major train-operating companies and rail infrastructure owner Network Rail, in what is being described as a “stock take” with little prospect of any new pay offers being put forward.are likely to be triggered later in the New Year after Aslef, the train drivers’ union, announced it would be balloting members on the Avanti West Coast line over staff rostering.
It means commuters face further misery on the railways next year as the impasse between the Government, operators and the unions rumbles on.The public body had offered a 5 per cent pay rise in 2022 backdated to January, and a 4 per cent pay rise from the start of 2023 – but 63.6 per cent of members voted to turn down the offer.
Whitehall sources said there would be no improved pay offers to break the deadlock and warned public support for the strikes was falling. “The fact talks will take place shows there is still goodwill on all sides. We are always willing to sit down and talk but we have been clear that what has been put forward is a fair and reasonable offer to the RMT,” the source told
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