A spokesperson for the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, said: “The agreement reached with the TSSA in February 2023 was a set of agreed national principles to update the railway for how passengers use it today.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mick-lynch-rail-strikes-rmt-b2378209.html

"For the first time in its 126 year history, TSSA is led by a woman, and a person of colour too," says Maryam 👇https://t.

Source: https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/national/23846618.transport-union-elects-first-female-general-secretary/?ref=rss

Hopes for an end of the dispute had been raised when the smaller TSSA rail union accepted a pay deal but talks between the RMT and the rail delivery group have yet to make a breakthrough.

Source: https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23366265.local-labour-candidate-blasts-train-ticket-price-rise-sick-joke/?ref=rss

"The fact that TSSA have settled naturally puts this in a very different position to the unions already in dispute.

Source: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/rail-operator-northern-gives-managers-26746754

The same day, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) announced that its members at Avanti West Coast had voted overwhelmingly to strike, adding that it would also be balloting its members at Network Rail and other train operators.

Source: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/transport/2023/05/30/little-light-at-end-of-the-tunnel-as-rail-strike-trundles-on/

TSSA general secretary Frank Ward threw his weight behind the verdict, saying: "I wouldn’t disagree".

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1719905/Mick-Lynch-Stalin-train-strike-update-union-bosses-rishi-sunak-grant-shapps

Yet leaders of the TSSA union accepted it on behalf of 3,000 of their members.

Source: https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/reports-round-up-rail-workers-set-to-strike-this-month/