Strikes ‘likely’ Minister says as he warns public to prepare for ‘significant disruption’ | Political news
A Cabinet Secretary has told Sky News he fears rail strikes will continue this week – and warned that workers must make sacrifices as the UK battles inflation.
Simon Clarke, Secretary General of the Treasury, said that while the government is not a legal employer of union members due to leave, they cannot expect “wage inflation”.
“I’m afraid that most likely they [the strikes] Mr. Clarke said. “It is clear that we will continue to support negotiations until there is no time left for discussion.
“But I think the public doing this week needs to know that there will be very significant disruption and so it makes sense to prepare for that.”
The departure of 40,000 workers in the biggest rail strike in three decades threatens to bring chaos to commuters and commuters. suffocating roads with increased traffic.
Members of the RMT union are in dispute over wages, mandatory redundancies and safety concerns.
Reports suggest this may be just the beginning of what has been described as a summer of discontent, with teachers, nurses, doctors and postal workers also weighing industrial action.
