Railway unions have threatened to continue the strike until Christmas as they prepare for the biggest shutdown of the rail network in nearly 30 years.
The RMT union has stressed it has a “mandate” for six months of industrial action after talks to avert a strike on Sunday failed.
Asked if passengers should expect a ‘long fight’, Mr Lynch told i newspaper: ‘That may be so, I hope it’s not, but there doesn’t seem to be much evidence at the moment that it’s going to be otherwise.”
Meanwhile, a Network Rail source told The Telegraph: “These strikes are highly unlikely to be one-off.
“The RMT will meet after the strikes and decide what happens next and we assume there will be more disruption and more strike days.
“So that turns the dispute into a battle of attrition. We are considering paying extra money to RMT flaggers to break the strike.
“Nothing has been decided but there have been discussions about it.”
More than 40,000 railway workers will walk out from Tuesday, crippling Britain’s transport network and threatening GCSE and A-level exams, hospital appointments and the ability of key workers to get to their places of work.
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Source: www.express.co.uk
This notice was published: 2022-06-20 13:26:00
