A generation of passengers will be put off the railways forever by ongoing train walkouts, unions have been warned, as they ready for another five-day strike.
The journeys of millions of people will be hit this week as militant rail unions launch yet more walkouts that are set to create the worst disruption in three decades.
Thousands of employees from the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) and ASLEF unions will hold industrial action that will see around 80,000 services withdrawn in the next five days.
However, some enterprising people have said it was a chance to gradually bed themselves back into their jobs after the Christmas holiday by working from home.
One Government source told a newspaper outlet the continuous industrial action was a massive show of self-harm by the unions.
They said that a generation of passengers would just write off the railways and that they were talking about permanent scarring, and the longer the walkouts continue, the greater the risk.
On Monday RMT general secretary Mick Lynch accused the Government of blocking a deal and said there had been unprecedented ministerial interference to stop train companies in negotiations.
Tory MP Greg Smith, who sits on the Transport Select Committee, told a newspaper outlet that the unions needed to accept a reasonable deal to get Britain away from strike-led decline.
This is despite reports that striking workers may be given more bonuses such as increased holiday allowances, pension benefits and rewards to end the ongoing industrial action.
The five days of delays will start on Tuesday and cause misery and havoc for people returning to work after the Christmas holiday, with many expected to find it impossible to get into the office.
However, this was met with delight from some workers, who were celebrating the idea of an extended spell of working from home.
One Twitter user wrote that they were back to work, but the train strikes meant that they should have a relatively relaxed first week back working from home.
Another added that at least the train strikes meant that they were working from home.
The RMT union, which represents thousands of workers including signallers and station staff, would strike on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
Aslef, which represents drivers, will strike on Thursday, despite some of their employees receiving a 28.5 per cent pay rise in 2017.
By the looks of it, the railways are going to go the same way as the British car industry, which will be killed off by the unions, and numerous train company staff still believe they work in the public sector and treat paying customers with disdain, and their toxic mindset needs to change, and they need to give us the customer service that we're paying for.
There will be many people that won't be returning to their daily commute with many companies that are fine with their employees working from home. I mean, what would you rather do? Waste 60 minutes or more on a packed train. Of course, you wouldn't and your bank balance would look much better as well because you wouldn't have to shell out all that cash on train prices, and what all these strikes are doing is solidifying the position of office employees as to why they don't need to return to big city offices anymore.
It's simple, the train unions are digging their own graves and they're driving customers away who now have a choice whether to use this substandard service or not.
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