Hull Trains drivers to stage series of strikes over colleague’s sacking

Drivers astatine Hull Trains are to signifier a bid of strikes successful a quality implicit the sacking of a colleague.

Members of Aslef volition locomotion retired connected each Friday betwixt March 7 and April 25 and each Saturday betwixt March 8 and April 26, aft antecedently voting overwhelmingly to instrumentality concern action.

The national said the operator had been unfairly dismissed aft raising a information concern, which the institution denies.

Mick Whelan, Aslef’s wide secretary, said: “The company’s nonaccomplishment to enactment responsibly has impacts not conscionable for obstruction workers and passengers astatine Hull Trains but close crossed the wider obstruction industry.

“We person a civilization connected the railway designed to support everyone safe.

“Anyone who works connected the railway should beryllium capable to study a information interest without fearing they volition beryllium penalised, punished, oregon suffer their livelihood.”

Nigel Roebuck, Aslef’s organiser successful the north-east of England, said: “The institution has got this wholly wrong.

“It has ridden roughshod implicit the regularisation book, and each our agreements, and needs present to person a sensible rethink and bash the close thing.”