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 action across 14 train operating companies.
Unions have to re-ballot their members every six months to legally continue with industrial action.
According to the RMT, in the new ballot at 14 train operating companies, over 90 percent of votes cast backed continuing with strike action, on an average turnout of nearly 70 percent….