Train strikes: RMT to hold fresh talks with rail companies but Thursday’s action to go ahead – live updates
by Tom Ambrose (now); Miranda Bryant, Geneva Abdul an from World news | The Guardian on (#60K13)
Union says Tuesday's strikes had seen fantastic' turnout at picket lines and exceeded expectations'
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Guardian North of England editor, Helen Pidd, is reporting on the rail strikes from Manchester, where pedestrians have been wishing strikers luck as they pass.
On Monday, Boris Johnson responded to the biggest rail strikes in a generation with plans to break the industrial action by allowing firms to bring in agency staff, a move unions have decried as unworkable, unsafe and potentially breaking international law.
There aren't any agency staff - we have seen that in other industries.