down with the two sides and trying to hammer something out. and even though the government does control the overall finances of the railway industry, ministers insist it is not theirjob to sort of micromanage it and try and resolve a dispute like this. borisjohnson also again trying to cause political discomfort for the labour leader by pointing out that a number of his mps had joined the picket lines yesterday despite sir keir starmer telling them not to. today of course we are talking about trains, but i think the concern in government clearly as they could be on a collision course with other unions over the course of the summer, as we see inflation continued to rise. today we saw a letter from a major teaching continued to rise. today we saw a letterfrom a major teaching union asking the government for an inflation matching pay increase for teachers. eunice sum, another very big public sector union, said ministers were living on another planet by calling for pay restraint. ministers
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