All strike dates for February 2024 with trains, buses and driving exams affected | 32926OK | 2024-01-31 11:08:01
February – and the remainder of January – will see recent strike action across the country causing widespread disruption to providers.
Rail staff plan to walk out over five days, starting tomorrow, with 17 practice corporations affected.
Abellio bus depot staff in Twickenham and Battersea have four days of commercial motion deliberate, as do virtually 2,000 driving check examiners in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Meanwhile, English Nationwide Opera employees plan to strike on Thursday, affecting the company's opening night time of The Handmaid's Tale, and a dispute with refuse staff in Cardiff continues to impression providers.
Here's a take a look at all January and February 2024 strike dates to concentrate on, why staff are strolling out and how it might influence you.
It's value noting that strike motion may be referred to as off on the last minute, topic to negotiation, so all the time examine the newest info earlier than arranging issues like travel plans.
Practice drivers
Practice drivers who're members of Aslef Union are striking for 5 days from tomorrow till Monday, February 5 over a pay dispute.
They've also refused to work any non-contractual extra time from in the present day till Tuesday, February 6.
Aslef common secretary Mick Whelan stated drivers need a pay improve to cope with the price of dwelling.
'Lots of our members have not had a single penny improve to their pay in half a decade, throughout which inflation soared and with it the cost of dwelling.
'Practice drivers didn't even ask for a rise through the Covid-19 pandemic once they worked all through as key staff, risking their lives to permit NHS and different staff to journey.'
A separate& LNER strike referred to as by Aslef and as a consequence of run between February 5 and 9 has been referred to as off.&
We've listed the present deliberate strike dates and which rail operators are affected under.
Tuesday January& 30
Southeastern
Southern/Gatwick Categorical
GTR Thameslink
South Western Railway
SWR Island Line
Wednesday January 31
Northern Trains
TransPennine Categorical
Friday February 2
C2C
Larger Anglia
LNER
Saturday February 3
Avanti West Coast
East Midlands Railway
West Midlands Trains
Monday February 5
Nice Western Railway
CrossCountry
Chiltern
Bus depot staff
Bus management room employees in south London, who walked out on January 19 and 26 in a row over pay have one other four days planned, February 2, 9, 16 and 23.
The strikes will disrupt at the least 18 bus routes providers that run from Abellio depots in Battersea and Twickenham.
These embrace the next bus numbers: 24, 27, 111, 156, 159, 267, 285, 322, 344, 345, 415, 490, 969, H20, H25, H26, R68, and R70.
Driving check examiners
Driving check examiners across the nation are set to stage a walkout from February 9 to 11, affecting 270 check centres.
Members of the Public and Business Providers (PCS) union are putting in protest at 'flawed' plans demanding instructors deliver 150,000 more checks by the top of March.
The DVSA (Driver and Car Requirements Agency) referred to as the decision to strike 'disappointing'.
Examiners have warned finishing up the additional checks might submit 'vital' safety risks for each them and their shoppers.
Cardiff refuse staff
Strike action by Unite members working inside Cardiff council's refuse and recycling division has been& going on since December 28.&
The walkout was prolonged by an extra four weeks and can now proceed till& Thursday, February 22.
The strike extension was in response to Cardiff council's failure to make any progress in relation to Unite's considerations on numerous native points.&
Unite says probably the most outstanding of those is the 'widespread bullying tradition inside the refuse and recycling division alongside the ingrained use of company labour'.
'Moderately than looking for to resolve this strike, Cardiff council seem intent on worsening industrial relations,' Unite basic secretary Sharon Graham stated.
English Nationwide Opera musicians and singers
Musicians and singers working for the English National Opera voted to strike on February 1 in protest at plans to chop jobs.
Members of the corporate's orchestra, refrain and music employees are set to stroll out on the opening night time of its newest run of The Handmaid's Story at the London Coliseum.
The Musician Union and Equity stated plans to cut 19 orchestra jobs and make other staff part-time would threaten musicians' livelihoods.
If it goes forward, it is going to be the first time Musicians Union members have taken full strike motion in 44 years.
Basic secretary Naomi Pohl stated the vote was 'a sign of extraordinarily troublesome occasions for the orchestral sector and opera and ballet particularly'.
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