LONDON, Aug 13 — Football fans and holidaymakers faced travel woe Saturday as train drivers walked out across the UK, the latest in a series of industrial strikes amid spiralling inflation.
“The companies have said that they cannot, or will not, give our members an increase,” said Mick Whelan, Aslef’s general secretary. The train network has already been crippled by previous strikes, including a three-day walkout in June that was the country’s biggest for 30 years.
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