LONDON (Reuters) – British train companies have made a new offer to rail workers in a bid to end a long running dispute over pay, the group representing the rail industry said on Friday.
Britain’s transport network has been hit by a series of disruptive strikes over several months as workers demand better wages to keep pace with surging inflation.
“We have put forward a fair revised offer which makes important clarifications and reassurances, in particular around job terms and conditions for our employees,” a spokesperson for the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said:
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said it was considering the offer and had yet to decide what its next steps would be,
A separate pay dispute with Network Rail, which owns and operates tracks and signalling infrastructure, was resolved last month after the union said its members had voted to accept an improved pay offer.
(Reporting by Farouq Suleiman, Editing by Paul Sandle and William James)
