News / 'Disastrous' cuts to UK track maintenance may signal 'biggest rail strike in history'

Some 40,000 UK workers at Network Rail could stage “the biggest rail strike in modern history” – a response to pay freezes and a threat to the jobs of some 2,500 workers, largely maintenance.

Between 26 April and 24 May, the staff will vote and, if there is a 50% turnout – a requirement of the 2016 Trade Union Act – the strike could begin in June.

An RMT spokesman said: “Freight cargo will be affected because our members who control train ...