Industrial action datesASLEF members at 19 train companies will be on strike on Saturday 30 September and Wednesday 4 October. They will also have overtime bans across the network on Friday 29 September and between Monday 2 October and Friday 6 October.
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Aslef is staging a combination strike and overtime ban for the start of September. Train drivers walked out on Friday 1 September and are refusing non-contractual overtime on Saturday 2 September – coinciding with the latest RMT strike.
Commuters will be hit by another round of strikes this week as the dispute between rail workers and train operating companies over pay, jobs and working conditions continues.
Update on rail services during industrial action on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 September 2023. ASLEF have announced a strike on Friday 1 September. The RMT have announced strike action for Saturday 2 September. ASLEF have also announced a ban on overtime working on Saturday 2 September.
Amtrak is preemptively suspending some service because its track will be affected if freight rail workers go on strike. “Amtrak operates almost all of our 21,000 route miles outside the Northeast Corridor (NEC) on track owned, maintained, and dispatched by freight railroads,” said Marc Magliari, an Amtrak spokesman.
However, this afternoon (4 November), the RMT has announced that it has suspended these strikes after securing intensive negotiations with rail bosses.
The union was set to stage further strikes involving Network Rail members on Monday 7 November and Wednesday 9 November. However, on Friday 4 November, the RMT announced that this series of three train strikes was being suspended, after the union secured “unconditional” talks with Network Rail.