Driver walkout halts trains as UK summer strike wave spreads


              Aslef General Secretary Mick Whelan,centre, speaks to the media alongside Labour MPs Dawn Butler and Barry Gardiner at a picket line at Willesden Junction station as members of the drivers union at nine train operators walk out for 24 hours over pay, in London, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Thousands of U.K. train drivers walked off the job Saturday in a strike over jobs, pay and conditions, scuppering services across much of the country. It's the latest in a spreading series of strikes by British workers seeking substantial raises to offset soaring prices for food and fuel. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)
            
              Aslef, Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen members are pictured on a picket line at Willesden Junction station as members of the drivers union at nine train operators walk out for 24 hours over pay, in London, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Thousands of U.K. train drivers walked off the job Saturday in a strike over jobs, pay and conditions, scuppering services across much of the country. It's the latest in a spreading series of strikes by British workers seeking substantial raises to offset soaring prices for food and fuel. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)
Driver walkout halts trains as UK summer strike wave spreads