Topic: ASLEF

View of Wembley Arch from platform at Wembley Stadium Station

UK strikes kick cup final into touch

The UK rail dispute has flared up once again. Rail unions have called a series of strikes for May and June. The largest union in the dispute, the RMT, will launch strike action across 14...Read more
|Comment|author: Simon Walton
A night time view looking down a station platform at Halifax with a red signal in the distance and a fast train blurring by

UK Strike dissent and division

Could one union be about to strike, while another is about to strike a deal? That is the question that faces negotiating teams on both sides of the long running and increasingly bitter round of...Read more
|Comment|author: Simon Walton
Signals over railway tracks

UK strikes: permission to make an offer

It could be the breakthrough that the British nation has been waiting for. The recently appointed UK Transport Secretary, Mark Harper, has done what none of his short-tenured predecessors have done, and has opened the...Read more
|Comment|author: Simon Walton