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Possible RMT industrial action on Merseyrail, 18-20 July 2026
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trainophile
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So I'm looking at RTT for tomorrow, and it's showing all trains from Southport are only going to Hillside. Is this correct? I understood it was "normal service" since they've postponed the strike action.
Edit: I've tweeted and apparently their journey planners aren't working currently, and they are running beyond Hillside. Not sure of timings yet but I can work around that.
Edit: I've tweeted and apparently their journey planners aren't working currently, and they are running beyond Hillside. Not sure of timings yet but I can work around that.
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Kite159
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The Metro Mayor is not named after a Yorkshire town.
Goldfish62
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Presumably @Pacef8 is going back to before Transport UK was spun off from Abellio, who are Dutch.
It's becoming quite tiresome, this union tactic of announcing a strike for a busy period, and then calling it off at the last minute, when anyone and everyone who was planning to travel has already made alternate arrangments.
They basically get a pay rise and a very easy day's work, when instead they might have had a very busy day. You'd like to think they feel at least a tiny sliver of embarassment or even shame for it, but you absolutely know they don't.
They basically get a pay rise and a very easy day's work, when instead they might have had a very busy day. You'd like to think they feel at least a tiny sliver of embarassment or even shame for it, but you absolutely know they don't.
samrammstein
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From my perspective, as a regular user of Capenhurst, we actually enjoyed an enhanced service of "VSTP" services in Saturday — 4tph with extended dwells at Chester to absorb any slight delays.
jamesst
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Strange then that the trains were still just as busy yesterday.
Also strange then that it was the company that suddenly came up with a last minute offer about 2pm on Friday.
Never let that get in the way of an anti union moan though.
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That was as a result of timetable changes for the golf, Friday was the same
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The revised offer was actually made by 09.14 on Thursday, as can be seen from post #13.
Goldfish62
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Yes, that was over three years ago.
What a tedious response. People vote to strike to better their terms and conditions. They don’t get paid when they strike. They lose out on their pension contributions. Northern guards took a massive hit when they were on strike a few years ago. I am personally anti strike unless it is health and safety related but hey, these people are standing up for themselves. They weren’t to know an agreement would be reached. This would have been totally unavoidable had the original offer been realistic.
dk1
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So many still made that mistake with GA right up until the end.
Has anyone actually managed to make an accurate post on this thread yet, or is it just all guesswork?
1. There was a further offer made late on Friday, which resulted in the industrial action being postponed.
2. There are no Dutch shareholders, it being Transport UK / Serco.
3. The Metro Mayor is called Steve Rotheram
4. Trains were at their busiest yesterday, so if it did put anyone off, the amount was minimal, so not sure what the easy work was anyone for on duty yesterday?
If the trains were just as busy, then clearly there was no leverage to be had here, and so now hopefully Merseytravel or its future GBR managers will call the RMT's bluff when they inevitably try and pull this stunt again, because as this thread makes clear, they had zero grounds for greivance, this was as blatant an act of stirking for sheer greed as you will ever see.
An offer was made on Wednesday or before 09.14 Thursday, when post #13 was posted which stated, inter alia, that it would not be known until Friday whether the strike would go ahead. Was there then another offer?
Eh? The trains were “just as busy” because the strike was called off and the previous planned timetable was fully reinstated. I doubt any RMT members in the Merseyrail union got an easy day’s work, as you claimed in your previous post.
Had the strike gone ahead there would have been only a few trains to the golf and no service anywhere else on the network.
The ballot on the revised offer closed on Friday at midday so it was presumably waiting for the outcome of that vote.
jamesst
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The ballot on the revised offer closed on Friday at midday and it was returned as a no vote.
The company then made a further offer Friday afternoon which resulted in strike action being postponed.
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Yet earlier you were saying everyone had made alternate plans and members would be having an easy day. Make up your mind.
