Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones insists a new pay offer to train drivers is a "good deal for the taxpayer" because it will end strikes, amid opposition claims it will result in higher fares or tax hikes. The deal, which is to be voted on by the ASLEF union, would include a backdated 5% increase for 2019 to 2022, 4.75% for 2022 to 2024 and a further 4.5% for 2024 to 2025. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Resetting the relationship between government and public sector workers and train drivers in this
00:04instance is a good deal for the taxpayer because we are preventing strikes from happening. There
00:08is a direct cost to the economy for strikes to continue and we need to work together in
00:13partnership with workers and trade unions and business in order to get sustainable growth back
00:18into the economy. So this is a good deal for the taxpayer, it's a good deal for the economy
00:22and of course we have very significant plans for modernising the railways through the
00:26nationalisation of the train companies and the creation of GB Rail which we'll be doing
00:30over the coming months and years.