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| Rail strike on 13 May, day of Eurovision final | |
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| Rail workers at 14 train operators will strike on 13 May, on the day of the Eurovision Song Contest final, after the RMT union rejected the latest pay deal. | Rail workers at 14 train operators will strike on 13 May, on the day of the Eurovision Song Contest final, after the RMT union rejected the latest pay deal. |
| The offer was aimed at ending a long-running pay dispute. | The offer was aimed at ending a long-running pay dispute. |
| But the union said accepting the offer would have meant no further strike action could take place. | But the union said accepting the offer would have meant no further strike action could take place. |
| It follows train drivers' union Aslef calling strikes on 12 and 31 May, and on 3 June, the day of the FA Cup Final. | It follows train drivers' union Aslef calling strikes on 12 and 31 May, and on 3 June, the day of the FA Cup Final. |
| There had been ongoing discussions as the union and train firms tried to reach a deal. | |
| But RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents the train companies, had "reneged on their original proposals and torpedoed these negotiations". | |
| Previous strikes had been called off when it was clear a new offer from the train firms was on its way. | |
| And the union has been considering the detail of the latest proposals. | |
| They involved one year's pay increase that was dependent on the union agreeing to go into a "dispute resolution process" - accepting, the industry would say, the general principle there would be changes to working practices - followed by a second year's pay increase dependent on those reforms being negotiated at individual operators. | |
| But the RMT has rejected that because it would not be able to call any more strikes if it accepted the first year's 5% pay increase. |