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Unions plan ‘maximum pain’ for commuters

A Government source told the newspaper the union action on Southern Rail has been “coordinated to inflict maximum pain on hard-working commuters”. Conservative MP Nick Herbert told them “it’s intolerable that key public services can be brought to a halt by a small number of militant trade unionists in what increasingly looks like a coordinated political action”.

We've read it in: The Daily Telegraph, January 9 2017, p1