A rail union chief has pledged to proceed with strike motion within the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and situations “for so long as it takes”.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have been embroiled within the row for over a yr, taking a sequence of strikes which have crippled companies.
The RMT is at present re-balloting its members to ask in the event that they need to proceed taking industrial motion.
Normal secretary Mick Lynch informed a fringe assembly on the Labour Social gathering’s annual convention in Liverpool that the union was dedicated to seeing the dispute by way of.
“We are going to proceed with our strike motion for so long as it takes.”
He stated Labour must be supporting each employee concerned within the wave of business disputes.
Mr Lynch additionally stated he believes that 98% of people that responded to a session on the way forward for railway ticket places of work have been against them closing.
Round 750,000 folks responded, a file quantity, exhibiting how strongly passengers felt in regards to the controversial plans to shut nearly 1,000 ticket places of work, he stated.