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Passengers suffered last-minute timetable changes on the final day of the latest overtime ban by train drivers belonging to the Aslef union at 16 rail operators including Avanti West Coast and c2c.
TfL’s “withdrawal” of the train modernisation plan is purely tactical. It wants to prevent a wave of strikes during London’s mayoral elections on May 2, and this year’s general election, with the vital assistance of the rail unions.
National strike by Romanian workers called off after unions accept pay award around minimum wage; teachers in France in one-day national strike against streaming of classes and teacher shortages; three-week strike by doctors in Kenya over pay, conditions and staff shortages joined by clinicians