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Talks ongoing to avert rail strike

As the proposed four-day rail strike from 6 April approaches there is renewed hope this evening of a breakthrough with negotiators on both sides said to be "working flat out". The four-day strike will effectively paralyse the UK rail network with only one in five trains expected to run and severe delays and overcrowding inevitable.

As you would expect, there are very different views from either side of the fence with rail network management suggesting that the unions are not as committed to a negotiated settlement as they appear to be in the press, and the unions concerned about job losses, passenger safety and the long-term interests of rail network employees. As with any industrial action the truth is probably somewhere in between the two extreme arguments although there needs to be some middle ground found in the short term to prevent what would be a crippling and very expensive strike.

It is becoming more and more obvious that unions and management up and down the UK are becoming more and more determined in pushing through their own views and their own strategies and in many cases, such as the British Airways and Unite union saga, very little middle ground has been found. The UK government is working tirelessly behind the scenes to try to prevent a crippling strike but so far there has been very little good news.

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