Source::AP news
About 20% of train services were expected to operate across the U.K. on Saturday, as per infrastructure operator Network Rail, with disruption spilling over into Sunday morning.
Britain is seeing a growing number of strikes and the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in decades.Unions accuse the government of preventing train companies which are privately owned but heavily regulated by making a deal.
After a summer with little progress in resolving the rail dispute, talks between unions and management have recently resumed.The government urged unions to work with employers, “not against them.”
The government says rail companies need to cut costs and staffing after two years in which emergency government funding kept them afloat. “We know that it’s difficult for the public but what we see around the country are more and more people who are fed up with the way they are being treated at work.” said Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union.
“The rich seem to be getting richer and the poor seem to be worse off all the time,” he added.
“Our railway is in desperate need of modernization, but all strikes are punishing the people unions which claim to stand up for and push passengers further away,” said the Department for Transport._AP news
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