Britain: New 24-hour train strike today

About 40,000 railway workers are on strike today at Britain for wages and employment, one month later the largest strike action in the sector in 30 years..

As he did not achieve the satisfaction of the requests with the three-day historic strike at the end of June, the RMT union declared new 24-hour strike with her hope increase in wages against the inflation that is galloping in the country and is likely to exceed 11% by the end of the year.

The prime minister’s successor will be asked to deal with the hot topic Boris Johnsonwho resigned on July 7 after a series of scandals and lies.

Due to the strike, around one in five trains are running today on half the network and in some areas there will be no trains for today.

The strike, as reported by APE-MPE, also affects traffic of trains her Eurostar causing route cancellations and timetable changes.

Unions plan strike action for both August 18 and 20, as well as a strike on the London Underground on August 19.

British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps denounced the unions, accusing them of calling strikes at the expense of the traveling public. “We need to take more action to stop the extremist unions from the far left disrupting the everyday lives of ordinary people,” the minister told SkyNews.

Source: News Beast

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