TRAIN drivers on LNER will strike for five days, ASLEF has revealed.
The latest walkouts are part of a long running dispute over pay and will cause more travel chaos for passengers.
EPATrain drivers on LNER will strike for five days in a long running pay dispute[/caption]
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Members of the union will walk out on LNER (London North Eastern Railway) from February 5 until February 9.
The drivers will also refuse to work any non-contractual overtime from February 7 until February 10.
The action is in furtherance of the union’s long-running pay dispute with the operator.
It is also in addition to a series of walkouts against train operators across England previously announced by ASLEF.
Mick Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, commented: “We have given LNER management – and their government counterparts who hold the purse strings – every opportunity to come to the table and they have so far made no realistic offer to our members.
“We have not heard from the Transport Secretary since December 2022, or from the train operating companies since April 2023.
“It’s time for them to come to the table and work with us to resolve this dispute so we can all move forward and get our railway back on track.”
ASLEF members across England will ban overtime for nine days from February 29 and strike against individual train operators on different days between January 30 and February 5.
The dispute started in the summer of 2022 and shows little sign of being resolved.
Fully qualified train drivers can earn at least £65,000 for a typical four-day week, plus lucrative overtime payments.
In April 2023, ASLEF’s executive committee rejected 4 per cent pay rises for two years in a row, on condition that they would accept industry-wide changes to driver training, and negotiate changes to work patterns at individual operators.
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