Train companies have unveiled plans to close most ticket offices at railway stations in England. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents rail companies, unveiled proposals on Wednesday which could lead to nearly all offices being shut, including those at some of the UK’s busiest stations, such as London Waterloo, London Euston, Birmingham New Street,…

Planned train strikes will affect hundreds of thousands of spectators travelling to events on Saturday such as the FA Cup final and the Epsom Derby. Train drivers’ union Aslef is on strike on Wednesday at 13 train companies, meaning several operators such as Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, Northern, and Thameslink are running no trains. A…

Rail unions have denied allegations they are deliberately targeting the Eurovision Song Contest and other major public events with industrial action. Members of the Rail, Maritime, and Transport union (RMT) will strike on Saturday—the day of the Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool, which the UK is hosting on behalf of Ukraine. Aslef, the train…

Britain’s biggest rail workers’ union said its members have voted to renew its mandate to continue staging strikes for the next six months. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), whose executive committee has rejected the latest offer aimed at resolving a long-running pay dispute, said on Thursday there was overwhelming backing for further strike…

Members of the Rail, Maritime, and Transport (RMT) union at Network Rail have voted overwhelmingly in favour of accepting an offer to end the dispute that has caused a series of strikes in recent months. The union said the deal includes an uplift on salaries of between 14.4 percent for the lowest paid grades to…

The Unite union has called off planned ambulance strikes in England in order to enter pay talks with the UK government. Union members at ambulance trusts in the West Midlands, northwest, south central, south coastal, and East Midlands had planned to strike on Monday. But the Unite union paused the strike action on Sunday afternoon….

Unions have agreed to postpone the planned strikes by nurses and ambulance workers in Wales next week after the Welsh government made a new pay offer. The GMB union announced on Friday that it will suspend its strike action in Wales planned for Monday, while the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) cancelled its walkout scheduled…

The UK government’s anti-strike legislation has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament, as the country suffers from continuing disruptions amid a wave of industrial action in the public sector. On Monday evening, MPs voted 309 to 249 to give the bill a second reading. It came just hours after the National Education Union (NEU) announced…

The Transport Secretary Mark Harper has told the Rail, Maritime, and Transport (RMT) union to get “off the picket line and round the negotiating table,” while the RMT has blamed the government as a 48-hour train strike crippled services up and down the country. Half of Britain’s railway lines were not operating on Tuesday, which…

British rail passengers have been warned to prepare for “significantly disrupted” travel into the New Year amid a wave of industrial unrest sweeping across the country. The Network Rail, which owns and maintains the railway infrastructure in England, Scotland, and Wales, has urged people to plan ahead and check before they depart as “industrial action…