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‘Substandard’ pay offers are causing issues – but could some breakthroughs by smaller groups pave a way forward?December 13, 2022 6:57 amSnow and ice have already wreaked havoc across the country, but today a new bit of chaos will descend. Rail workers will be out in freezing conditions this morning joining picket lines, starting what is likely to be a month of strikes.
. But the Chancellor is still planning to apply a squeeze to the public finances, with state spending reduced by up to three per cent as a result of inflation and further cuts to come in the New Year. , after it offered a 5% pay rise for this year – backdated to January – with another 4% at the start of 2023 and a guarantee of no compulsory job losses until January 2025. The union said that 63.6 per cent of members voted to reject it, on an 83 per cent turnout. Andrew Haines, Chief Executive of Network Rail, suggested the RMT leadership thinks “long and hard about what to do next, further strike action will cause further misery for the rail industry and for their members who will lose pay.
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was freed in a prison exchange for US basketball star Brittney Griner,which calls for Russia to reconquer countries of the former Soviet Union. In a video posted on Telegram, Liberal Democratic Party leader Leonid Slutsky thanked Bout for his alliance and welcomed him to the “best political party in today’s Russia“.
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