PM: We won’t allow unions to drag us back to Seventies

BORIS Johnson vowed not to ‘surrender’ to the rail unions as two more announced UK strike plots yesterday as part of a co-ordinated ‘summer of discontent’.

The Prime Minister said the Government will not simply ‘roll over’ to union demands.

It came as train drivers’ union Aslef announced strikes to coincide with those by the militant RMT, which will see 40,000 workers for Network Rail and 13 train firms covering most of the country walk out on June 21, 23 and 25.

The TSSA union yesterday said it would start balloting hundreds of workers for industrial action at operator Avanti West Coast.

The Mail revealed last month how, in an echo of 1970s union militancy, the RMT, Aslef and TSSA are working on plans to inflict the ‘maximum possible disruption’.

A Government source said: ‘You don’t want to go back to the 1970s where you had inflationary pay rises which led to more inflation.’