The march is the first of the signal workers in three decades. It will force Network Rail to use contingency workers to allow a reduced number of services to operate, even though members who voted in favor of industrial action do not cover all train operators.
The rail action on June 21 will coincide with a strike on the London Underground. The Glastonbury Festival takes place from 22 to 26 June, and many travel by train, especially from Paddington Station in London. Meanwhile, on June 23, there will be a by-election for two Conservative MPs who resigned in disgrace.
Voters will go to the polls in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and Tiverton and Honiton, Devon, following the resignations of Imran Ahmad Khan and Neil Parish in a key test of Boris Johnson’s authority after being injured by a vote of confidence of parliamentarians on Monday. evening.
Lynch has made little secret of the RMT’s radical focus on labor relations.
Last year he said: “Unions must take a militant stance and use the weapon of the strike wherever appropriate.”
Railway officials want to cut sharp cost cuts to balance the books and curb the need for taxpayers to keep British railways afloat.