Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, has said his members are “pleased” with a new pay deal that will see the end of more than two years of strike action. Aslef union members accepted an offer which included a 5% backdated pay rise for 2022-23, a 4.75% rise for 23-24, and a 4.5% increase for 24-25.
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00:00Yes, quite naturally. More importantly, my members are pleased with this deal.
00:03From the resounding mandate we've had today of 96% in favour of the deal and the high turnout of 88%,
00:10we can say that the drivers are content. It wasn't about concession, it was about reality.
00:14We went and we told them what the problems were, what we believe the perceptions of problems were.
00:19We told them the issues we'd had and the bad faith that we'd had under the previous government
00:22and no one talking to us for over a year or more. We told them about the two deals that
00:25were non-deals that we'd never seen and the bad faith that went with it. And they quite
00:29clearly wanted the taxpayer and the travelling public to have the services they require.
00:34And also, at the same time, the long-term programme of labour is to actually bring the
00:37labourers back under Great British Railways. So the time for change in terms of conditions
00:41would be under that process.