ASLEF

Serious disruption scheduled for Christmas transport.

Was Boxing Day strike ballot valid?

London Underground accuses Aslef of jumping the gun while talks are ongoing.

Boris Johnson has again invoked the prospect of driverless Tube trains as a way of permanently beating the strikes.

Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone has called on transport chiefs to offer free travel on April 29th, the day of the Royal Wedding.

The management at tube union Aslef have described the chances of a strike on the day of the Royal Wedding as “remote”.

TfL’s takeover of Tube Lines hasn’t resolved any of the disputes that were bubbling away. Aslef engineering train drivers on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines are due to walk out this weekend (and again on 29th May), which presumably will mean further line closures …

After two months of work-to-rule disruption on the Thameslink routes, FCC have finally agreed a pay deal with Aslef – but trains are still not back to normal. The phrase they’re using is “significantly more services” as trains get repaired from snow damage and drivers …

Up to 90 Eurostar staff, including 70 drivers, are to begin a 48-hour strike on Friday, December 18th, in a dispute over pay. The union Aslef, in a brief statement, confirmed that talks with the company’s management had broken down, and warned that further strikes …

Image by mattbuck4950 under a Creative Commons licence The fragile state of our railways is on show again, as the Thameslink route between Bedford and Brighton (with the loop through Wimbledon) suffers a third day of disruption after drivers started a work-to-rule over pay. Like …