LONDON — According to a wire service, train drivers at a regional rail operator in northern England will hold three 48-hour strikes this summer in a dispute over pay, a union announced Wednesday.
The walkouts by the drivers’ union Aslef on the First North Western train line will occur July 28-29, Aug. 4-5 and Aug. 11-12 in a campaign for a substantial wage rise, the union said.
Aslef said the drivers earned less than 24,000 pounds (dlrs 37,562) a year, compared with 28,000 pounds (dlrs 43,823) for drivers on Arriva trains, which also operate in Northern England.
The strike announcement followed an 88 percent vote for industrial action in a ballot of 700 drivers, the union said.