🔴The Transport Secretary is proposing to bar striking rail staff from claiming overtime to which they are traditionally entitled to return the service to normal as quickly as possible after a walkout
Rail workers planning to strike this month will be “hit in their pay packets” under plans being drawn up by Grant Shapps with industry chiefs.
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