Members of the RMT union have voted to accept a pay deal and end almost 18 months of strikes across the UK rail network. The country’s largest transport union said its members had “spoken in huge numbers” to accept the offer. The agreement represents a big breakthrough in the long dispute between rail workers and train operators and the government that first erupted in the summer of last year. RMT members accepted an offer of a backdated pay rise of 5% for the 2022-23 financial year, plus job security guarantees and no changes to working conditions. Difficult talks between unions and industry over modernisation will instead be pushed into next year and negotiated at local level by individual train companies.
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