Zerothebrake!
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Think i'd rather be on a picket line..
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ASLEF - LNER drivers to strike every Sat & Sun for 3 months from 31 Aug - Now called off
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Tezza1978
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Has anyone heard any more on this? Presumably the first set of strikes this weekend are going ahead unless we hear some news today re negotiations/them being paused or cancelled?
Even if they were called off it'll be to late to revert to the timetables back to a normal weekend service so disruption is baked in sadly.
The Middle
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Surely everyone just works what they were expecting to work and the trains run again? Shouldn't take too much unpicking to reinstate the timetable.
dk1
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Reinstating a full normal timetable is far more complicated than that when it comes to traincrew rostering let alone train planning.
Strike action suspended https://x.com/ASLEFunion/status/1829210790018330901?t=1rs_Q6y8MaUM7nLVnXWnMA&s=19
Will be hard running a full service thus weekend with short notice, unless LNER made 2 rosters just in case.
Good news! I still think ASLEFs tactics of announcing such significant strike action so close on the heels of the pay deal are dubious but at least we've got a positive results and quickly too! Only one weekend likely scuppered.
NSEWonderer
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Good news at least
Maybe announcing so close was a tactic, after all, the dispute is now settled after nearly 2 years.
dk1
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Hopefully heads have been banged together very hard indeed within LNER management circles. Good to hear of a breakthrough within that toxicity.
woodmally1979
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So its been called off. How has it been resolved so quickly? Two years of dispute and some of the horror stories I have read on here and it quickly got resolved. Now as a passenger I am cheering no strikes but very suspicious how quickly it was resolved.
Bletchleyite
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Has it been resolved, or is it just a signal of goodwill that productive talks have started?
GRALISTAIR
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Either way it is good news in my book.
weeklycommuter
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Perhaps it was the Transport Secretary calling for both sides urgently get around the table, negotiate in good faith and stop the action before it starts. LNER is an operator of last resort so for LNER management that in effect amounted to an order. Clearly this is a big change from the previous Government.
This late in the day “what they were expecting to work” will all have been cancelled, and it’s too late to start re rostering people.
They may be able to run a better than advertised service based on people heading into work who would otherwise sit spare.
Indeed. I think a lot of their members have also questioned those tactics in various messrooms up and down the country! The result rather vindicates them, though (as with the wider dispute).
Absolutely mate.
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Tezza1978
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BBC News reporting Whelan saying its all been resolved with LNER.
NSEWonderer
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Some may have been very against how Aslef handled the initial strike Announcement but the Gamble does seem to have worked out if the talks or some agreement has been found to a 2 year issue. Clearly they saw the more open movement of the new Government and decided to try and push it hard into the front light for some resolution.
dk1
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Whilst also standing up for what was obviously going wrong with LNER over the last couple of years. Well done ASLEF.
Change of Government leading to a change of approach one suspects. Wonder if the previous Tory administration was happy to back LNER management in a "them vs us" confrontation, whilst the Labour administration might not be quite so keen for LNER to be so combative with their own staff...
The tweet seems pretty unequivocal that its sorted!
GRALISTAIR
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Fantastic news.
Just had an email from LNER saying exactly this. Amended timetable still applies but keep an eye on the day as additional services may run.
duffield
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I was 99% certain that something like this would happen from the moment the strikes were announced. I think there was effectively an order from the transport secretary to LNER management to "get it sorted, right now". And if the very top management in LNER wanted to carry on in new but similar roles in GBR they were not going to argue or delay.
Good to hear - I do hope your planned journey on Saturday(?) goes smoothly.
nanstallon
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About the one and only thing I agreed with the Tories about! Taxpayers' patience with the railways demanding a blank cheque with ever increasing subsidies, and striking all the time, is getting sorely tested. I've always felt that the people who go on strike are those who can afford to!
Quite.
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Absolute nonsense, the LNER dispute has been ongoing for a long time, well before the election(not about pay)
Regarding the Drivers national dispute, this was the first national action in over 30 years.
Its now 60 to 80k, so as the taper band is twice as big, then the “effective marginal rate” is halved, but obviously for twice as long.
Nicholas Lewis
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So one has to presume LNER are reverting to historic processes thus drivers won't be pestered on days off and DM's wont be chucked a bung to work shifts? Thus will this allow LNER to run the advertised service reliably or will we see some thinning of services to keep within available resources?
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