{"id":228609,"date":"2025-07-01T06:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228609\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:37:13","slug":"subway-workers-to-strike-during-trnsmt-music-festival-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228609\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway workers to strike during TRNSMT music festival \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Strike action by Glasgow subway workers will escalate this month when workers walk out for an additional three days \u2013 during the TRNSMT festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unite the union announced on Tuesday that staff will walk out on July 11, 12 and 13 in the dispute over pay and \u201cintolerable\u201d working conditions, while a continuous overtime ban has been in place since June 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It comes after three days of strike action last week which saw the subway closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The union said that an interim offer made by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) recently was overwhelmingly rejected by the members.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/uk\/key-points-of-the-strategic-defence-review-R53CM3DQY5KLNNZQQWPWLFFHXM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Key points of the Strategic Defence Review\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TE3NCHOVYRPJDHRQX5A67NOAMQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/uk\/sir-chris-hoy-and-wife-lady-sarra-receive-freedom-of-the-city-of-london-EESPWIG5SVPMLIWULQVTR24ZRY\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Sir Chris Hoy and wife Lady Sarra receive Freedom of the City of London\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ZT2PJCT6NZJYDJ453ZJZ6IBHFM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The dispute centres on pay, shift allowances and the SPT employees\u2019 working conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: \u201cUnite\u2019s members will no longer accept intolerable working conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSPT has had years to resolve the problem and has failed to do so. Our members have said enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe will support them all the way in their fight for better jobs, pay and conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unite claims that train drivers and station staff are routinely working up to 10 hours beyond contracted hours (39 hours) a week to keep the system operating without any improvements to the shift, overtime, and weekend allowances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It said that Unite members are also repeatedly called in to work shifts at short notice, leading to significant work-life balance pressures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The TRNSMT festival will take place at Glasgow Green from July 11-13\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/S2R2RDBV3VIARIIEBDNALKWUYE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>The TRNSMT festival will take place at Glasgow Green from July 11-13 (Michael Boyd\/PA) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The TRNSMT festival takes place at Glasgow Green from July 11-13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andrew Brown, Unite industrial officer, said: \u201cSPT can fix this dispute at any point but they are refusing to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt needs to make an improved offer which our members can then seriously consider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cStrike action is now set to take place later this month which will again bring the subway to a complete stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t inevitable if SPT come back to the table with an improved offer but if they don\u2019t then the blame will be entirely with them for their failure to fix this dispute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SPT has been asked for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strike action by Glasgow subway workers will escalate this month when workers walk out for an additional three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,34834,918,4884,10843,806,269,712,2952,89945,29278,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-228609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-festival","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-industrial-action","13":"tag-industry","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-strike","17":"tag-subway","18":"tag-trnsmt","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114776601135322913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}