Strike action is being planned for dates in late August across rail, London Tube
trains and buses as well as at the container port at Felixstowe. In Germany,pilots for the airline Lufthansa are also planning to strike. ---- On MondayAugust 8th Ryanair Spanish cabin crews plan four-day strikes every week for thenext five months. ---- On Friday August 12th EasyJet Spanish pilots to strikethrough to Sunday 14th. ---- ASLEF Train drivers are striking on Saturday August13th, at the following rail companies: London Overground, Greater Anglia, GreatWestern Railway, Hull Trains, LNER, London Northwestern Railway, Southeastern,West Midlands Railway, Avanti West Coast, Crosscountry. Rail service covered bythose railway companies will come to an abrupt halt. ---- The Rail, Maritime andTransport workers union (RMT) have also announced new days of strike actioninvolving London Underground and Overground staff on Thursday August 18th andFriday 19th.On Thursday August 18th and Saturday August 20th RMT workers will be striking atrail companies Chiltern Railways, Cross Country Trains, Greater Anglia, LNER,East Midlands Railway, c2c, Great Western Railway, Northern Trains, SouthEastern, South Western Railway Transpennine Express, Avanti West Coast, WestMidlands Trains and GTR (including Gatwick Express).Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) are also consideringstrike action over pay, jobs and conditions. The train company Southeastern,which is wholly owned by the Department for Transport and runs train servicesbetween London and Kent, as well as parts of East Sussex, will be hit by the TSSAstrikes. Major stations potentially effected include London St Pancras, Victoria,Charing Cross and Cannon Street, as well as Dover Priory, Ramsgate, AshfordInternational, Dartford and Sevenoaks.Over 1,600 London bus drivers are also set to walk out. The drivers, who aremembers of the Unite union and employees of London United, are set to strike onFriday August 19th and Saturday August 20th.Public transport in and around London in this period will be severely disruptedand business will most certainly not be as usual in the capitol.Also on Friday August 19th EasyJet Spanish pilots in SEPLA union to strikethrough to Sunday 21st.Meanwhile, workers at the UK's biggest container port in Felixstowe also intendto strike for eight days in a dispute over pay. Around 1,900 members of the Uniteunion will walk out on August 21st after rejecting a 7% pay offer from FelixstoweDock and Railway Company. The strike will be from Sunday August 21st until MondayAugust 29th.Around half of containers brought in to the UK are transported via the port atFelixstowe.Airline pilots working for the German airline Lufthansa have voted in favour ofpotential strike action over pay. They would be taking action during the peak ofthe summer travel season. The Vereinigung Cockpit union is calling for a 5.5% payincrease this year and an automatic adjustment for inflation starting next year.Saturday August 27th EasyJet Spanish pilots in SEPLA union strike through Monday29th.There is also the growing possibility of British Airways pilots going on strike,with negotiations ongoing. Royal Mail staff have voted to back a strike but thereare no dates set yetThe momentum for strike action is significant and the idea of strikes as a meansof resistance continues to grow amongst larger groups of workers, spreading tonon-unionised sectors such as Amazon, but things will have to escalate furtherand direct action must be applied if workers are to create a crisis for thecapitalist class.https://surreyanarchistcommunistgroup.blogspot.com/2022/08/august-strikes-on-trains-and-boats-and.html_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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