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[Travel] Luton home train strike



HangletonGull

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Apparently there’s strikes planned for the 7th till the 12th august, will this effect our game?
 






RM-Taylor

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ASLEF just announced 7th August through to 12th August, following their previous announcement of 31st July to 5th August.

Once again, they know what they’re doing regarding the dates as they know this will have a huge impact due to the Saturdays they have announced being the opening weekends of both the Football League and then the Premier League
 










RM-Taylor

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None of the operators have these dates as strike dates from what I can see.
 










Bozza

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It's an overtime ban, not a strike so trains should run, there will just be fewer of them...

ASLEF, the train drivers’ union, has today [Monday] announced another week-long overtime ban in our long-running dispute with 15 train companies in England which have not given their train drivers – our members – a pay rise since 2019. Drivers will refuse to work overtime from Monday 7 to Saturday 12 August.​
The ban which will seriously disrupt services as none of the train companies employs enough drivers to deliver the services they have promised passengers, and the government, they will run. That’s why they are dependent on rest day working, as it is called in the railway industry, which of course is voluntary, and, by agreement, and is a system in place properly to be used for the purposes of training, rather than plugging holes in their rosters.​
The withdrawal of non-contractual overtime will start at 00:01 on Monday 7 August and end at 23:59 on Saturday 12 August at: Avanti West Coast; Chiltern Railways; Cross Country; East Midlands Railway; Greater Anglia; Great Western Railway; GTR Great Northern Thameslink; Island Line; LNER; Northern Trains; Southeastern; Southern/Gatwick Express; South Western Railway main line; TransPennine Express; and West Midlands Trains.​
 














Herr Tubthumper

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If they don't want to work under the conditions set by their employers, then they should go and get a different job
But they are working…as has been pointed out.
 




A1X

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If they don't want to work under the conditions set by their employers, then they should go and get a different job
I think you’ll find they are working to EXACTLY the conditions set by their employers. They’re not doing an iota more than that, though.
 








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