Rail strikes: Disruption for festivals, sporting events and the Notting Hill Carnival

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road workers are now in their 14th month of a seemingly deadlocked labor dispute. Talks with settlers failed in April. There has been no progress as we feel there is a way to navigate that respects our members. Respect their terms and conditions. Give them a reasonable salary. We'll go up and then listen to what companies want to tell us about the way they want to manage the industry in the future. What is the main problem with the proposal to close the ticket offices? I have no idea how they work with 20,000 staff at 14

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operators leaving only half the usual trains are running and in many areas services started later and finished earlier, affecting festival goers in Leeds and reading, as well as other festive

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such as Notting Hill Carnival and Manchester Pride.

I feel sympathy for the striking workers, but I also find it incredibly frustrating when there are no alternatives. It affects the audience, but I guess that's the point. Otherwise it wouldn't be a very good strike, it's difficult for someone who takes the train frequently. The transportation department says targeting a holiday weekend was a cynical decision. The government says it has played its role in trying to end this strike by facilitating what it calls fair and reasonable pay offers. He says it's the union leaders who they are. refuse to present those offers to their members, it is a real shame that the offer we have presented to them, which is worth 13 for the lowest paid member, has not been put to a single vote for the rmt membership and if we were, if we could to do it clearly, that is one way we could move forward and find a resolution to this dispute since the railway dispute began, nurses, senior doctors and ambulances have taken industrial action in the NHS.

Professors and professors have also been on strike, as well as firefighters and civil servants. Some of the conflicts have been totally or partially resolved. Others seem set to continue. The next

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are planned for September 1st by the members of ASLEF and in the second by rmt mode Fraser Sky News leads