Hundreds of apply drivers at 16 operators are to take extra strike movement subsequent month as part of a year-long dispute.

Members of the ASLEF apply drivers union have launched walkouts on Friday 1 September and additional time bans on Saturday 2 September, disrupting suppliers all through Britain.

Up to now inside the dispute, which has been ongoing since June 2022, 11 days of strikes have taken place.

A whole of 16,000 drivers are to work together inside the movement subsequent month, ASLEF said, in continuance of the dispute over pay, conditions and safety.

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Affected apply companies are:

• Avanti West Coast
• Chiltern Railways
• c2c
• CrossCountry
• East Midlands Railway
• Higher Anglia
• GTR Nice Northern Thameslink
• Nice Western Railway
• Island Line
• LNER
• Northern Trains
• Southeastern
• Southern/Gatwick Specific
• South Western Railway
• TransPennine Specific
• West Midlands Trains

Roughly 20,000 rail staff of the RMT union are due to strike on 26 August and a pair of September.

Prepare operator advisor, the Rail Supply Group (RDG), said the union’s administration has not put its “truthful and cheap supply” to union members.

“We urge the ASLEF management to acknowledge the substantial monetary challenges dealing with the rail trade and work with us,” the RDG said.

That present, the RDG said, would improve the widespread driver’s base wage, for a four-day week, with out additional time, from £60,000 to simply about £65,000.

The ultimate present of an 8% pay rise over two years was rejected in April.

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The union said most drivers haven’t had a pay improve in 4 years and said the present was “risible”.

“We don’t wish to take this motion however the practice firms, and the federal government which stands behind them, have compelled us into this place as a result of they refuse to take a seat down and speak to us,” ASLEF’s widespread secretary Mick Whelan said.