300,000 people were hit by Aslef and the RMT’s strike on Southern Rail yesterday. The bad news for commuters is that things will get worse in the New Year.
The unions have a six day strike planned for January, that means a whole working week of commuters not being able to get to their jobs, specialist medical appointments being missed and families being put under pressure. I argue in The Sun today that the government needs to act to help commuters.
What it should do is ask parliament to pass a law that would impose minimum service requirements on the rail unions and the train operators. Never again should a whole line be able to be taken out by strike action.
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