Both the British government and the unions dig in on train strikes

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Both the British government and the unions dig in on train strikes
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Britain's latest rail strikes are a battle for public sympathy as well as a pay dispute

ICK LYNCH sounds like a prophet of Britain’s end-times. In recent interviews the twinkly-eyed secretary-general of the

Britain does not depend on its railways as it once did—in part because trains are so unreliable and expensive that only a small proportion of Britons use them to get to work. The disruption caused by the current wave of strikes will nonetheless be considerable. Network Rail, which owns and manages Britain’s railways infrastructure, has warned that there will be some disruption every day until January 8th.

Some of the mooted reforms seem reasonable. They include the closure of more ticket offices: in an era in which tickets are increasingly bought online and collected from machines that seems inevitable. Including Sundays in the contractual definition of the working week, rather than leaving it as a day that employees can choose to work, also makes sense.

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