The union accused the company, which runs trains through the West Midlands, of imposing new working patterns without agreement.
Mick Lynch general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union joins members on the picket line outside London Euston train station on Wednesday during a strike in a long-running dispute over jobs and pensions. Photo: James Manning/PA Wire
“Earlier this year, in the summer, Avanti tried to blame drivers for taking ‘unofficial industrial action’, which it knew to be untrue. “If it had done the right thing and employed, as we have consistently asked it to do, enough drivers it would not have had the problems that have persisted all through this year.
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