Passengers face fresh travel disruption amid strike by thousands of rail workers

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Rail passengers suffered fresh travel disruption on Thursday because of a strike by thousands of workers in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), including station staff and train managers, walked out and will strike again on Saturday and on July 29, while drivers in Aslef are banning overtime this week.
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00:00 [indistinct chatter]
00:03 [indistinct chatter]
00:06 [indistinct chatter]
00:35 We've been on strike for over a year.
00:36 This campaign's probably been running for two years.
00:39 The issues are the same.
00:40 They're attacking our jobs.
00:42 They're making redundancies.
00:44 They're closing services.
00:46 We haven't had a pay rise for four years.
00:49 And the people that remain, they want to cut our conditions
00:53 and issue new contracts of employment.
00:55 There's not an agreement in sight at the moment,
00:58 but we remain available for negotiation with the companies
01:01 and with the government,
01:02 but that's up to them to invite us back to the table
01:04 so that we can work up some solutions to the dispute.
01:08 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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