Our business correspondent, marc ashdown, reports. sarah has stage four bowel cancer and has been in and out of hospital for treatment and had been due to have an operation on her liver today but it s been cancelled due to the strikes. 50 but it s been cancelled due to the strikes. , ~ but it s been cancelled due to the strikes. , ~ ., ., strikes. so it is kind of a threefold strikes. so it is kind of a threefold you strikes. so it is kind of a threefold you have, - strikes. so it is kind of a threefold you have, me| strikes. so it is kind of a - threefold you have, me getting strikes. so it is kind of a threefold you have, me getting the hospital as a patient, you have visitors getting to and from the hospital to come and see me, which is really important, and then you have the staff who are desperately trying to look after me and keep me alive. ~ , alive. the rmt said it regrets the strike action. alive. the rmt said it regrets the strike action, but alive. the rmt said it
A generous pay rise and bear in mind their pay has gone up almost 40% since 2011, they ve had the highest pay rise per employment category since then. tomorrow, rmt members will strike for 2h hours in their latest walk out. they ve rejected a similar pay offer. it s the reforms to working practices, around sunday working, ticket offices and who operates train doors which remain thorny issues. after almost two years of industrial action on britain s railways, one union leader said he thinks they are now further away from an agreement than when they first started. i m afraid this is not over. today, the first of four strike dates over the first of four strike dates over the next three weeks. tomorrow the rmt union walks out for 24 hour is, bad news for anyone looking to rush up bad news for anyone looking to rush up to liverpool for eurovision and aslef will be out on wednesday the sist aslef will be out on wednesday the 31st of may. bad news for football fans, saturday during the third,
Twitter to hire more staff. according to a report in the financial times, brussels is concerned about the company s plan to hire more volunteers and artificial intelligence to help moderate the social media platform. the eu wants more human moderators and fact checkers to review posts. here in the uk, the rmt union has called off planned strike action at network rail on 16th of march, after receiving a new pay offer. rmt members at network rail will have a referendum on the updated offer. however as things stand, workers at 1a other train operating companies will still take industrial action on the 16th of march. let s focus on the trade war between the us and china now, because as you ve been hearing washington is ramping up the pressure on chinese tech giants such as tiktok. late on tuesday senators from both republican and democratic parties presented a bill that would give more power to president biden to ban chinese apps if they
Jobs and working conditions. they re holding two 48 hour strikes this week in england, scotland and wales while the train drivers union aslef will take action on thursday. our business correspondent theo leggett is at euston station in london. and at euston station there are not many trains running, is across the rest of the country. one in five services, compared to normal. and many parts of the network have gone dark altogether. as you said, there is a 48 hour strike under way. that s some 40,000 rmt members at network rail and 14 train operating companies. they are on strike for the next two days. after that, it is the next two days. after that, it is the turn of aslef train drivers to walk out, before we have another rmt strike at the end of the week. the question the travelling public is obviously asking is when will this come to an end? as i have been
People are out in shopping areas thinks footfall will be lower than pre pandemic levels, but better than last year. january, february, march the first quarter of 2023 is going to be quite tricky for a lot of people, but i think this first christmas post covid people are making the best of it and will be making the most of that sale period as well. those planning to travel to the shops or anywhere else in person will find the few trains which normally run on boxing day are going nowhere, as rmt members at network rail continue strike action. the most successful female golfer of all time, kathy whitworth, has died at the age of 83. she won a record 88 ladies professional golf association titles, including six majors in a career which started in 1959. whitworth was also the first woman to earn a million dollars on the lpga tour. she died suddenly while celebrating christmas eve with family and friends. let s speak to sports journalist alison walker now.