Mick Whelan, general secretary, said: "The continued failure of the company to resolve long-standing industrial relations issues has forced us into this position. We would much rather not be here. But the company has brutally, and repeatedly, broken diagramming and roster agreements, failed to adhere to the agreed bargaining machinery, and totally acted in bad faith. When we make an agreement, we stick to it. This company doesn't. And we are not prepared to put up with their boorish behaviour and bullying tactics."
Nigel Roebuck, ASLEF's full-time officer in the north-east of England, who leads on negotiations with LNER, added that "Relationships are toxic and the behaviour of LNER long ago snatched the crown off all the other bad actors of recent times."
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