HISTORICAL FACTS: 9 - The Untold Story

Train strikes: Further RMT walkouts planned in long-running dispute over pay and conditions

It comes days after the RMT union rejected a "dreadful" pay offer from Network Rail

Chronicle Live · Feb 16, 2023

RMT announces further national rail strikes

Strikes to begin on 16 March after union rejects offers from train operators and Network Rail

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2023

Could rail unions strike when Newcastle United play at Wembley in the Carabao Cup Final?

With thousands of Newcastle United fans set to travel down to Wembley next week for the Carabao Cup Final against Manchester United, an impending rail strike could cause huge disruption

Chronicle Live · Feb 13, 2023

RMT union rejects latest offers from Network Rail and train operating companies

The RMT said it will now seek further meetings with Network Rail and the Rail Delivery Group to try to achieve a negotiated settlement.

The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2023

RMT rejects ‘dreadful’ pay offers from Network Rail and train operators

Union boss Mick Lynch says message from members was ‘loud and clear’, as TSSA prepares to put offer to vote

The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2023

Welsh Government hurried to buy £4.25m farm for music festival due to underspend

An Audit Wales investigation has raised concerns over the Welsh Government's decision to buy Gilestone Farm before seeing a full business plan

Wales Online · Jan 31, 2023

Four problems that Britain’s crisis-hit railway must solve to survive

Staff relations are at rock bottom, investment is shrinking and franchising has failed. But even so, passengers are trickling back. Can the network be revived?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2023

Senedd proceedings shelved for the day as 100,000 civil servants strike

The PCS union said it welcomes the solidarity shown by Members of the Senedd who voted to move scheduled parliamentary business to alternative dates

Wales Online · Jan 27, 2023

Tory Transport Minister admits cost of rail strikes more than settling dispute

The RMT union General Secretary Mick Lynch said the comments from Huw Merriman were evidence of the Government treating businesses in the pre-Christmas period as 'collateral damage'

Daily Mirror · Jan 18, 2023

Mick Lynch claims government ‘admitted to deliberately prolonging the rail dispute’

‘The interests of businesses, rail workers and passengers have been sacrificed to a wider public sector pay agenda,’ says union boss

The Independent UK · Jan 18, 2023