Black Country MPs divided on who is to blame for train strike saga dragging on
Long-running rail strikes will finally hit the buffers "when the unions see sense" or "if the Government does its job", according to Black Country MPs.
Rail passengers will again be forced to find alternative transport tomorrow during the latest strikes by train drivers union Aslef, on Friday due to the RMT and Saturday due to Aslef.
MPs were divided down party lines when asked how they thought the industrial action, which have been driving passengers around the bend since last summer, would conclude.
Labour MPs believed the Government held the key to ending the dispute whereas Conservative MPs believed the unions' lowering their demands will get public transport back on track.
Warley Labour MP John Spellar believes the long-running dispute will end when the Government begins negotiating with the unions instead of the train companies.
He said: "This will only end when the Government stops dealing with this dispute at arm's length and starts negotiating with the unions.
"They own a quarter of the rail companies anyway and after all the money pumped in after Covid the rail companies will do what the Department of Transport tells them to do.
