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19

Jan 2024

Last Updated: 23/01/2024
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Five-day ASLEF strike set to hit Harrogate to London trains

by Flora Grafton

| 19 Jan, 2024
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On Monday, January 22, ASLEF announced the planned industrial action had been cancelled. Another planned walk-out, on February 2, is still set to go ahead. 

Members of the Associate Society of Locomotive Engineers and Fireman (ASLEF) Union will walk out at LNER for five days next month.

ASLEF issued a press release yesterday saying drivers will walk out from Monday, February 5 until Friday, February 9.

It added members would also refuse any non-contractual overtime from Wednesday, February 7, to Saturday, February 10.

LNER operates trains between Harrogate and London King’s Cross, which are likely to be affected during the strike, although details have yet to be revealed.

It has been engaged in a long-running pay dispute with ASLEF.

Mick Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, said:

"We have given LNER management - and their government counterparts who hold the purse strings - every opportunity to come to the table and they have so far made no realistic offer to our members.
"We have not heard from the Transport Secretary since December 2022, or from the train operating companies since April 2023.
“It's time for them to come to the table and work with us to resolve this dispute so we can all move forward and get our railway back on track."


LNER has yet to comment on the strike.



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