UK Strike: Reconciliation recedes
Talks across a table
The prospect for a resolution to the current rail dispute in Britain seems even further down the line. A deal is less likely now, at the end of a week of strike action. With the network in England, Scotland and Wales crippled on Saturday, the dispute that started on midsummer’s day seems more likely than ever to be raging come midwinter.
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Government is cleverly using the term ‘modernisation’ because it is a trap. It is language deliberately chosen to portray the railways as living in the dark ages to facilitate cuts. However railway workers are rostered Saturday’s& Sunday’s the same as any other days. The sheer amount of propaganda that has been fed to the media about Railway workers and so called mythical ‘Spanish practices’ is all intended to force cuts which is damaging safety and morale among the workforce.