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Train drivers will stage a series of weekend strikes on the UK’s east coast mainline this autumn in a new dispute just days after the government agreed a 14 per cent day deal with the union.
The Aslef union announced 22 days of strikes on Saturdays and Sundays between August 30 and November 10 by workers for LNER, one of the UK’s busiest rail companies, which operates services linking London to Edinburgh.
The announcement comes two days after Aslef agreed a deal with the new Labour government to end two years of nationwide strikes in England in exchange for a 14 per cent pay deal.
Aslef’s leadership said the disputes were unrelated, and blamed the state-run company for “a breakdown in industrial relations, bullying by management, and persistent breaking of agreements”.
LNER did not immediately comment.
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