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Virgin Trains strikes: Walkouts before Christmas and during January have been cancelled, announces train company Virgin Trains strikes: Walkouts before Christmas and during January have been cancelled, announces train company
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On the eve of the busiest travel day of the winter, a planned strike on Virgin Trains has been called off.  On the eve of the busiest travel day of the winter, a planned strike on Virgin Trains has been called off. 
The RMT and TSSA unions have agreed to call off the industrial action by on-board and station staff in a dispute over parity with train drivers. The RMT and TSSA unions have agreed to call off the industrial action planned for Friday by on-board and station staff in a dispute over parity with train drivers.
Virgin Trains had published an emergency timetable, which cut about one-third of services, but a full schedule is now expected to run.  Virgin Trains had published an emergency timetable. A one-day strike on 15 December caused significant disruption, cutting about one-third of services.
Future strikes on 5, 8, 26, 29 January 2018 has been called off and that it is planning to run a full timetable on Friday 22 December. The firm hopes to run a full schedule on Friday, but recommends passengers still check their journey is running, because the rosters put in place for Friday must be completely re-drawn. A revised timetable will not be live on Virgin Trains website until the early hours of the morning.
More follows… Virgin Trains’ managing director, Phil Whittingham, said: “We’ll do everything we can to run a full service on Friday 22 December, but because the strike has been called off at the last-minute there may be some cancellations.
Future strikes on 5, 8, 26, 29 January 2018 have also been called off.
The dispute was about the RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, called “justice and equality and against the divide and rule approach of Virgin”.
A strike by staff on CrossCountry Trains planned for 23 December and Christmas Eve is set to continue, in a row about rostering. 
Strikes over driver-only operation are planned for the last week of the year on Greater Anglia and South Western Railway, and on a wide range of operators early in January.