Train drivers at Northern Rail are set to strike in March as the
Members at Northern and LNER will take strike action on Friday 1 March for a failure by the company to adhere to existing agreements.
And members will take action short of a strike (a ban on non-contractual overtime) on LNER and Northern from Thursday 29 February to Saturday 2 March.
Mick Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ trade union, said: ‘We are fed up to the back teeth with the bad faith shown, day after day, week after week, and month after month by these two companies.
‘We always stick to agreements which we make. These companies think they can break agreements – which they freely enter into – whenever it suits them. And they’re wrong. This is a shot across their bows and a sign of things to come.
‘They need to stop what they are doing, start to behave properly and honourably, because their drivers – our members – are no longer prepared to be treated like this.’
Mick added: ‘These disputes are entirely separate from our national pay dispute with 16 train operating companies – although LNER and Northern are two of those TOCs – because we haven’t had a pay rise since 2019.’
