Rail strikers can claw back some of £4,000 lost earnings through overtime loophole
It is estimated that the average railway worker loses £180 per day during walkouts.
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It is estimated that the average railway worker loses £180 per day during walkouts.
The Mail has learnt that around a fifth (4,000) of RMT members who work for Network Rail defied the strike and turned up for work - double the number that did when strikes first began in June.
As rail workers strike, the influential role of Mick Lynch has become a matter of national interest.
A Dorset MP has accused unions of using railway employees as 'political pawns' as he slammed train strikes which are set to hit Christmas travellers…
The first day of Mick Lynch's wave of crippling Christmas rail strikes today sent Britain back to the darkest days of the coronavirus lockdown, with usually packed city centres deserted.