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They haven't been asked to agree to that.

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Presumably the impact of the overtime bans on certain dates will vary considerably between different train operating companies. Haven't Aslef drivers refused to work rest days and overtime at Avanti, for example, since last summer?

Looks like the Thursday strike had a massive impact on attendance. 121 fewer people could make it compared to the Friday! 9,000 more in attendance than on the non-strike day on the Wednesday. Just another example of how the RMT have succeeded in striking themselves into irrelevance.

Perhaps you could share the reported improvements in the latest offer with the RMT since they appear to have missed them?

Is that the same latest offer that the RMT described as "dreadful"?

Instead of striking themselves into irrelevance and achieving nothing but losing money because the RMT is incapable of negotiation you mean?

What happened to the RMT demand for an unconditional pay offer?

Many RMT members would also accept the current deal, if only the union would let them vote for it.

The RMT are coming in for heavy criticism from lots of their own members on social media tonight. The deal not being put to a vote is the recurring theme.

The RMT striking themselves silly and achieving nothing plays right into the Government's hands.

Yes. Today's press release says:

RMT have lost the plot. Moving the goalposts and demanding an unconditional pay offer they have zero chance of getting. Hammering their members' pay packets having failed to ballot on the latest offer for fear of the result. This is surely where support for the union begins to implode. Here's...

0843, 0943, 1043, 1143 and 1243 Euston to Liverpool Lime Street services all cancelled today according to JourneyCheck, although the 1243 appears to have been reinstated on National Rail Enquiries.

38 Avanti cancellations so far today, plus the usual terminating mid-route on many more.

The three agreements mentioned were with the TSSA for management grades (accepted in August), Unite, and the ongoing TSSA ballot for 3,500 of their other staff which concludes tomorrow.

I haven't said the Government are blameless. I've said given the RMT leadership recommended their members reject the NR deal, there's no indication they'd have settled for a similar deal without DOO for the TOCs. For what it's worth, I think the blame lies with both sides in this dispute.

Based on the outright rejection of the NR deal by the RMT leadership, there's no evidence they would have accepted a similar deal for the TOCs if only DOO/DCO hadn't been mentioned. The DOO talk obviously doomed it to rejection regardless but there's no real indication that other than that a...

DOO is nothing to do with Network Rail and irrelevant to this dispute.

You're right! Looks like it's just Avanti being peak Avanti as usual then.