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The 2022–2024 United Kingdom railway strikes were an industrial dispute between rail workers and companies, with the latter supported by the UK government. The rail workers are represented by several unions including the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF).
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Mick Lynch at RMT solidarity strike rally at London Kings Cross, 25 June 2022. Following a ballot of National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers members over whether to take industrial action, it was announced on 24 May 2022 that they had voted in favour of strike action, paving the way for the UK's first national rail strike ...
December 16, 2022 at 9:45 PM. Railway workers continue with 48-hour strike over pay and conditions. Railway workers will continue with a 48-hour strike on Saturday, causing more travel misery for ...
Tube Strike sign at Paddington. London Underground strikes are an intermittent part of life in the capital of the United Kingdom. Described as "one of Britain's most strike-prone industries", [1] the London Underground has been subject to travel disruption due to industrial action organised by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), ASLEF and other unions, in response ...
Mick Lynch at RMT solidarity strike rally at London Kings Cross, 25 June 2022. Following a ballot of National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers members over whether to take industrial action, it was announced on 24 May 2022 that they had voted in favour of strike action, paving the way for the UK's first national rail strike for three decades. [1]
Worst accidents. The worst accident was the Quintinshill rail disaster in Scotland in 1915 with 226 dead and 246 injured. [a] Second worst, and the worst in England, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. [1] The death toll from the 1957 Lewisham rail crash was 90; for the 1889 Armagh rail ...
Labour has compared the number of days lost to strikes in the UK between October 2022 and July 2024 with the average number of days lost in France between 2012 and 2022. ... February 2020 and ...
4 April – Czech Republic – 2021 Světec train crash: Express freight train No. 54334 of ORLEN Unipetrol Doprava (UNIDO), hauled by locomotive 753.740 collided with ČD Cargo freight train No. 66403, hauled by locomotive 123.023, at Světec Station. The driver of the ČD Cargo train jumped out of the locomotive and survived, but the driver ...