Train drivers have voted overwhelmingly to accept a multi-year pay deal, ending a two-year dispute at 16 train companies, their union Aslef has announced.
Mick Whelan, ASLEF’s general secretary, said: “It is with great pleasure that we can announce the end of the longest train drivers’ strike in history. The strength and resilience and determination shown by train drivers to protect their hard-won and paid-for terms & conditions against the political piracy of an inept and destructive Tory government has prevailed.
“It was not a fight we sought, or wanted. All we sought was – after five years without a pay rise, working for private companies who, throughout that period, declared millions of pounds in profits and dividends to shareholders – was a dent in the cost of living.
“We are grateful that Louise Haigh, the Secretary of State for Transport, and the adults entered the room and sought an equitable way forward so that trains will perform and run in the interest of the passenger, of the taxpayer, and of those who work in and are dedicated to this industry.”
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