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If anyone is doing a Jubilee tour, it maybe worth bearing in mind that the RMT could impact your travel plans.

RMT need to give 14 days notice, so they can't legally strike this weekend.

Good on the workers for striking.

st599_uk wrote: ↑30 May 2022, 11:09am RMT need to give 14 days notice, so they can't legally strike this weekend.

No idea about that, its just that as I was leaving Morley Train Station yesterday, there was a poster up saying that services on Sundays may be impacted by RMT action, and certain specified Saturdays.

fossala wrote: ↑30 May 2022, 11:18am Good on the workers for striking.

It's a wonder the whole country isn't on strike with what's happening politically!

For sure, but if your struggling to pay bills you can’t. It works in “thier” favour to keep us beaten down.

fossala wrote: ↑30 May 2022, 12:06pm For sure, but if your struggling to pay bills you can’t. It works in “thier” favour to keep us beaten down.

Yer not wrong!
What's needed in the UK public is a Ukranian spirit!

Steve X wrote: ↑30 May 2022, 11:26am No idea about that, its just that as I was leaving Morley Train Station yesterday, there was a poster up saying that services on Sundays may be impacted by RMT action, and certain specified Saturdays.

This will be the Transpennine 'Express' dispute -- a separate one from the big national dispute (though relating to similar issues of pay and conditions). They've been on strike for most Sundays since early spring (and Saturdays as well, when it's a bank holiday weekend). One consequence of particular relevance (/annoyance) for cyclists is that TPE have instituted a global bike ban on strike days, on those services which are still running. (Or they say they have: I haven't tested to see if they're actually enforcing it...)

pal wrote: ↑30 May 2022, 3:00pm

This will be the Transpennine 'Express' dispute -- a separate one from the big national dispute (though relating to similar issues of pay and conditions). They've been on strike for most Sundays since early spring (and Saturdays as well, when it's a bank holiday weekend). One consequence of particular relevance (/annoyance) for cyclists is that TPE have instituted a global bike ban on strike days, on those services which are still running. (Or they say they have: I haven't tested to see if they're actually enforcing it...)
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That is interesting thank you, looks like we shall have to review our plans for a Train to Hull for the Ferry, later in the year.