Train strike announced on day of FA Cup final between Manchester City and United
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTrain drivers are to stage three fresh strikes in the long-running dispute over pay, including one on the day of the FA Cup final between Manchester City and Manchester United at Wembley Stadium, their union Aslef announced today.
The union today confirmed the action for Saturday June 3, saying Avanti West Coast, which runs trains to London Euston from Manchester Piccadilly, was one of 16 train operating companies due to be affected.
The Wembley showpiece, the first Manchester derby FA Cup final, kicks off at 3pm. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community The announcement on Thursday comes after Avanti told the Manchester Evening News, they had already been in touch with both football clubs and plan to be able to update all customers, including fans travelling to the final, in 'due course.' Many thousands of City and United fans are set to make the trip by rail down south to London for the day.
Aslef said today its members has rejected a 'risible' four per cent pay offer. The union said in a published statement: "ASLEF, the train drivers’ union, has rejected a ‘risible’ pay offer from the 16 train companies with whom we are in dispute – our drivers not having had an increase in salary at these companies since 2019. "Our executive committee met this morning [Thursday] and rejected a risible proposal we received from the RDG, a pressure group which represents some of the train companies, and lobbies on their behalf, late on Wednesday afternoon,’ said Mick Whelan, ASLEF’s general secretary, today. "The proposal – of just 4% – was clearly not designed to be accepted as inflation is still running north of 10% and our members at these companies have not had an increase for four years. "The
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