Rail passengers are facing further disruption over the summer holidays after train drivers announced another week-long overtime ban in a long-running dispute over pay.
Members of the driver’s union, Aslef, will refuse to work extra hours from Monday 7 August to Saturday 12 August.
The industrial action will affect 15 train companies in England, and also affect some cross-border routes into Wales and Scotland.
It will be the fifth week-long ban on working overtime since May. The latest ban ended on Saturday, with another one due from 31 July to 5 August.
Mick Whelan, Aslef’s general secretary, said: “We don’t want to take this action – because we don’t want people to be inconvenienced – but the train companies, and the government which stands behind them, have forced us into this place because they refuse to sit down and talk to us and have not made a fair and sensible pay offer to train drivers who have not had one for four years – since 2019 – while prices have skyrocketed in that time by more than 12%.”
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Train staff belonging to the RMT union staged two strikes last week and will take further industrial action on Saturday, in their own long-running row with train operators over pay, jobs and conditions.
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