UKHospitality responds to RMT and network rail pay agreement
March 20, 2023
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After various strikes, the Rain Union RMT have announced that its members accepted the Network Rail’s offer to increase lowest paid salaries by 14 per cent and the highest by 9.2 per cent. They have also agreed to increase backpay, discount rail travel and uplift basic earnings.
Responding to the news that members of the RMT have voted to accept a pay offer from Network Rail, UKHospitality Chief Executive Kate Nicholls said:
“This is encouraging news for hospitality businesses, who may dare to hope that their role as collateral damage in this dispute could be coming to an end.
“There’s plenty still to be done, of course, with ongoing negotiations between other employee groups, but I hope that this agreement paves the way for rail and tube strikes to end completely.
“Venues across the country have so far incurred lost sales upwards of £3 billion and would have struggled immensely to deal with that level of ongoing disruption.
"I would encourage everyone involved to continue their urgent negotiations and bring to an end strikes that have heaped misery on businesses, consumers and workers for almost a year.”