UK strikes to run up to Christmas and after New Year
Christmas tree at Manchester Piccadilly station Network Rail
Britain is braced for a series of damaging rail strikes, disrupting the run up to Christmas and the return to work in the new year. The largest trades union in the rail industry, the RMT (Rail Maritime and Transport) will stage a series of walkouts, each lasting forty-eight hours, during December and January. In a major escalation of the long-running dispute over pay, conditions and job security.
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