South Western Railway has announced that they will be keeping passengers moving during the upcoming RMT strikes announced yesterday.
An amended timetable for Saturday will be available via the South Western Railway website here
Compared with Saturday strike days of late, additional trains will be provided between Bournemouth and Weymouth, Portsmouth, Eastleigh and Alton and Woking.
The RMT has further strikes planned on the following dates:
- Friday 31 August – Sunday 2 September (72-hour strike)
- Saturday 8 September
- Saturday 15 September
Yesterday, RMT announced that they would strike on 2, 8 and 15 September in addition to the dates they had previously announced.
Timetables for these strikes will be published on soon.
What did the officials say?
A South Western Railway spokesperson said:
“It is extremely disappointing that the RMT has yet again chosen to needlessly inconvenience our customers, and its own members, across our network.
“We are committed to resolving this dispute and earlier this week met with the RMT at Acas, reiterating our proposed framework agreement which centres around how we can better keep our customers moving during times of disruption.
“Despite the RMT agreeing to a similar deal with another train operator just a few weeks ago, the union has failed to explain to us, their members or our customers why such a deal is not acceptable on our network.
“The RMT executive’s answer to every question is strike – they need to start accepting that the railway is modernising and that their members can play a key part in that future if only they stop calling for action and work with us to deliver a better railway for our customers.
“This decision is totally unnecessary and pointless – we cannot make it any clearer that our plans mean more not fewer guards, we have guaranteed to roster a second person on all our trains and we have guaranteed terms and conditions.
“We will continue to do everything we can to minimise disruption to passengers while the RMT persists with these unnecessary strikes.”
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I think South Western Railway could become just like Northern and Govia Thameslink Railway (including Great Northern, Thameslink and Southern). If more strikes are to happen. Even Greater Anglia and Great Western Railway might also have strikes happening which happen in December or early next year as the rail fare is rising to 3.2%.