
Nickjt continued: "If I was in Government I would ban strikes altogether. During Covid they sat at home on full pay, they get a fantastic pension, so should not be striking."

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Train drivers and all people working on the railway are in my opinion over paid already and generally are not working that hard. Taking to our comment section to air their views, Nickjt added: "They are just very greedy people. Imagine if all NHS staff did who would care for the patients." Commenting on our Facebook page, Chris Castle said: "I work in a hospital and we get paid peanuts, yet we can’t go on strike. Read more: Readers have their say on train strikesĮssexLive readers have spoken out and had their say on the strikes - with 67.4 per cent saying they do not support the industrial action in our Twitter poll. The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has called for the action over pay, working conditions, and job cuts which was decided after chiefs rejected a "paltry" 4% pay rise offer. It was announced there would be no replacement bus services operating for the cancelled trains and that services would be "severely reduced and disrupted".įurther strikes have also been announced across 14 operators later this month. The train operator warned commuters of severe disruption ahead of the ASLEF trade union strike.


The strike, held on Saturday (July 23), saw around 90 per cent of Greater Anglia train services cancelled. Travel disruption unfolded across Essex over the weekend as workers from Greater Anglia held a 24-hour strike over pay conditions.
