Transport Secretary Mark Harper says a 'fair and reasonable pay offer' has been made to rail workers.
The RMT union said it would launch action across 14 train operators for 24 hours on Saturday 13 May - the day Liverpool hosts the Eurovision final on behalf of Ukraine.The union's executive and the train operators had been discussing a new pay offer aimed at ending a long-running dispute.
Train operators said they had been "blindsided" by the strike, and denied union claims they had changed their offer. Aslef has strikes on 12 and 31 May, and on 3 June, the day of the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium in London. The strikes will run from 00:01 to 23:59 each day. The only people responsible for the ongoing strikes in this country "are the government and the employers", he told the BBC.
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