{"id":48852,"date":"2022-10-21T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=48852"},"modified":"2022-10-21T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:36:56","slug":"strikewatch-national-rail-strikes-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/strikewatch-national-rail-strikes-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Strikewatch: National rail strikes in November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The RMT union has announced further rail strikes in November over pay and conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strikes on Network Rail will happen on 3, 5 and 7 November.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strikes will also take place on London Underground and Overground networks on November 3 over a separate dispute.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After negotiations between Network Rail and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), an agreement was reached for the company to commit to better pay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, bosses at Network Rail went back on their promises by attempting to introduce job cuts and severe changes to working conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmt.org.uk\/news\/rmt-announces-new-network-rail-strike-dates\/?preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said<\/a>: \u201cOur members are livid with these duplicitous tactics and they will now respond in kind with sustained strike action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How will this affect you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extent of the impact of the strike is yet to become clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be disruption on a national level, and rail replacement buses will be running. However, there are expected to be delays on these services from the amount of people who will be using them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on this from Voice of London as it comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words: Yana Trup | Subbing: Cerah Handsaker<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RMT union has announced further rail strikes in November over pay and conditions. The strikes on Network Rail will happen on 3, 5 and 7 November.\u00a0 Strikes will also take place on London Underground&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":48869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48906,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48852\/revisions\/48906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}