Union boss shrugs as he departs pay talks with ministers
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Union boss shrugs as he departs pay talks with ministers
Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, gives a shrugging gesture as he leaves the Department for Transport and also declines to give any detail of the meeting with government ministers on pay talks.
Report by Blairm.
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Large parts of the country have no train services because of a fresh strike by drivers in a long-running pay dispute. Aslef General Secretary, Mick Whelan said that there is ānever a good time for a strike,ā but insisted that it is right that they are āstrategic and tacticalā with their industrial action to create an āimpactā. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Train drivers at 16 rail companies will stage a series of fresh strikes next month in their long-running pay dispute, the Aslef union has announced. Sky News
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