00:00 We're taking today because it's part of a week-long overtime ban.
00:03 We had a week the other week, we've got another week coming up in August, and it's another
00:07 way of articulating our voice to say to the government we haven't gone away and we need
00:11 a resolution to the dispute that we're in.
00:13 We were offered 4% to give up every term and condition that we had after going back in
00:17 the talks after a deceitful deal that we'd never negotiated before was put on the table
00:20 the previous January.
00:21 And once more we received bad faith, disingenuous and deceit from government and from train
00:26 operating companies.
00:27 After four years without a pay rise, cost of living affects train drivers, it affects
00:31 every other grey group, they're looking for a cost of living pay rise.
00:34 Quite simply, nothing else.
00:35 All trade unions in all sectors have been out looking for the same thing.
00:39 So in every family there's somebody with a train driver, somebody who's a teacher, somebody
00:43 who works in civil service.
00:44 So at this moment in time we've an awful lot of public sympathy, an awful lot of public
00:47 support because everybody's in the same boat together.
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