{"id":123971,"date":"2024-08-29T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/weekend-strikes-by-lner-train-drivers-called-off\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T18:11:06","slug":"weekend-strikes-by-lner-train-drivers-called-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/weekend-strikes-by-lner-train-drivers-called-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend strikes by LNER train drivers called off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/11ea\/live\/8b4cdda0-65f8-11ef-a50e-3f5a775d430f.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Weekend strikes by LNER train drivers called off\" title=\"Weekend strikes by LNER train drivers called off\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Train driver strikes at London North Eastern Railway (LNER) have been called off following last-ditch talks between union and company officials.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Some 450 drivers at the company had planned walk out every weekend until mid-November.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Aslef said this was due to a &#8220;breakdown in industrial relations and agreements&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">However, on Thursday, Aslef told the BBC a &#8220;resolution&#8221; had been reached and confirmed drivers would &#8220;now report for duty as normal&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">LNER, which operates services on the East Coast Mainline, had already reduced its services on Saturday in advance strikes starting.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The company, which is run by the government, run trains to and from London King&#8217;s Cross station and also through major cities including Newcastle, York and Durham.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The dispute between LNER and Aslef was separate to the long-running row over pay between drivers and all 16 train companies in England, which could soon be resolved following a new pay offer.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy4lwde3l73o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train driver strikes at London North Eastern Railway (LNER) have been called off following last-ditch talks between union and company officials. Some 450 drivers at the company had planned walk out every weekend until mid-November. Aslef said this was due to a &#8220;breakdown in industrial relations and agreements&#8221;. However, on Thursday, Aslef told the BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/11ea\/live\/8b4cdda0-65f8-11ef-a50e-3f5a775d430f.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[2608,5202,94512,199,6612,4725],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123973,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123971\/revisions\/123973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}