Impossible to say with certainty: the Department for Transport (DfT) says employers have been able to negotiate freely but “with clear direction from government about the modernisation that needs to be achieved”.
Government has clearly set the financial parameters, what the RMT leader Mick Lynch called the “fingerprints of Grant Shapps and DNA of Rishi Sunak”.The industry has been told, directly or otherwise, that pay rises can only come with “productivity gains”.
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