STAFF AT Network Rail and 14 Train Operating Companies in the RMT union were due to hold another strike over pay and job security on 27 July, with two further walkouts called for 18 and 20 August. Meanwhile, drivers in ASLEF working for Arriva Rail London, Chiltern Railways, Greater Anglia, Great Western Railway, Hull Trains, LNER, Southeastern and West Midlands Trains were set to strike on Saturday 30 July. ASLEF had already held a strike at Greater Anglia on Saturday 2 July, with another due to follow on 23 July, while strikes were due to be held on Hull Trains on 16 and 23 July. The series of strikes follows three by RMT members on 21,23 and 25 June which caused large scale disruption across the network, even where no ballots had taken place, due to the absence of signallers. A second ballot by the RMT of Govia Thameslink Railway staff resulted in 80 voting in favour of strikes on a turnout of 57.5, meeting the legal threshold for action; an earlier ballot had not met this threshold.
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