The UK rail industry has stepped up efforts to end seven months of strikes, with infrastructure operator Network Rail making a “revised” offer on pay and working practices to the RMT trade union.
Network Rail hopes changes to its proposed modernisation of working practices, including improvements to annual leave allowances, will help push a deal with the RMT over the line. These changes are being offered alongside a 9 per cent pay rise for rail workers over two years, which was rejected in a vote by union members in December.
The details of the revised Network Rail offer were disclosed as train drivers belonging to the Aslef union on Wednesday joined teachers and civil servants in the biggest day of strike action in the UK since 2011.
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