Members of Aslef and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union will walk out in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty ImagesRail passengers face fresh travel chaos on Friday because of another strike by train drivers which will leave large parts of the country with no services all day.
He told the PA news agency: “I don’t know whether to point the finger of blame at the ineptitude of the Department for Transport or the Rail Delivery Group. A spokesperson for the Rail Delivery Group said: “Having made an initial offer which would have taken average driver salaries from £60,000 to nearly £65,000, we had hoped the Aslef leadership would engage constructively to move talks forward, rather than staging more unnecessary strikes. We can only apologise for the disruption.
You might clarify that it’s UK train drivers.