I was told today I couldn't book seats on the Cleethorpes to Man picc route for Friday 18th as there is a possibility of strike action, booked the tickets online last Friday, that was sudden, can anyone shed any light on this? Cheers.
FTPE receive notification from ASLEF of intention to strike on Friday 18 March
10 Mar 2016
Paul Watson, Operations Director said, We are extremely disappointed and frustrated by ASLEFs announcement to strike on Friday 18 March. It serves no purpose other than to cause unnecessary disruption to our customers, who just want to get to work and go about their day-to-day business with minimal fuss.
We have been in talks with ASLEF over the past week regarding the three separate issues that they have raised and which we had offered a resolution for. We are keen to continue these talks to resolve this matter as soon as possible; our main priority is to ensure that our customers are not affected by this.
This strike action is in response to three separate issues which we have offered a resolution for;
The use of Driver Standards Managers (DSMs) to conduct drivers on services
The running of a train to get rugby fans to the six nations Calcutta match via the East Coast Mainline to mitigate the closure of the West Coast Mainline due to the recent closure of the Lamington Viaduct
Request for all the Drivers Council to have a guaranteed five days release every four weeks