Yet ministers keep saying Aslef should put "the deal" to a membership vote
No surprise there, either!
At some stage the penny will drop that the “offer” needs to be improved and local negotiations enabled, or this will continue to the next election (along with overtime bans, working to rule etc. if going on strike is made more difficult).
FWIW, I do think putting a formal deal to a vote should be mandatory, but I think it's fairly clear what would happen if they had. It just removes any arguments about whether anyone was acting improperly or not.
This would just enable bad faith delaying tactics from the employer (government) as we have seen in this dispute: eg by making an “offer” with zero negotiation (the first ASLEF offer), or inserting clauses that will never be accepted (the RMT offer including blanket DOO).
Minimum of 14 days' notice so assuming nothing is announced today then earliest 29th June. Too late to affect Glastonbury but other major events may well be targeted.
To be fair there’s been little evidence of either union “targeting” events thus far. If anything they have deliberately left major events alone. Of course there will be
something the Daily Mail can jump on virtually every weekend to suggest has been targeted by the evil unions!
Thanks for that, i just thought that the union might give it a week or two to allow a response from the government but get the feeling I'm being rather silly expecting anything positive from them!
ASLEF has indicated a willingness to continue talks - potentially a window for that now that the latest strike dates have finished.
Lets face it, the one day here and one day there is having little effect other than to lose their members money, and every day's pay lost by a driver equates needing a further 0.35% pay increase to get that money back.
The Ts and Cs are much more of a concern. In terms of “what next”, simply keep going is the predominant feeling, as underpinned by this latest ballot. Worse case scenario is continuing right up until the election but, even if that happens, we are likely already closer to the end than the beginning, assuming it’s called early autumn as some have predicted.
especially those who have grown to become dependant on overtime over the past few years. I know there are drivers at my TOC who openly gloat that they have earned six figures in the past, so to be on flat money must be a hell of a hit for some.
Those who are reliant on overtime to that extent will be outnumbered almost everywhere by those who do little to no overtime and would actually prefer an overtime ban to strike action!
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