Commuters hit by rail walk-outThousands of passengers were facing travel misery on Thursday as workers from rail firm National Express East Anglia East Anglia (ăng`glēə), kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, comprising the modern counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. It was settled in the late 5th cent. by so-called Angles from northern Germany and Scandinavia. began a two-day strike after negotiations broke down. The walk-out by Aslef, the RMT RMT right mentotransverse (position of the fetus). RMT 1. Registered Massage Therapist 2. Renal mesenchymal tumor union and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) is a trade union for "white collar" workers in the transport industry in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Its head office is adjacent to Euston station, London, it has branch offices located in Dublin and Glasgow, (TSSA TSSA Technical Standards and Safety Authority (Canada) TSSA Technology Standards for School Administrators TSSA Transport Salaried Staffs Association TSSA Tennessee State Soccer Association TSSA Technical Safety Standards Association ) is the third of its kind to affect services between London and Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. A spokesman for Aslef said the union's executive had also decided to call a full week of further action next month. Workers are demanding increased pay and better working conditions from the franchise, whose parent company, National Express Group, recently suffered the blow of losing their lucrative East Coast service. Aslef leader Keith Norman accused the management of living "on another planet". "Train drivers voted by 95 percent to 5 percent to back industrial action: the RMT vote was of a similar level and this week the TSSA has joined the three-week dispute," he told the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . National Express East Anglia (NXEA) reacting to the agitation said it did "everything possible" and blamed Aslef for backing out of a deal "at the last minute". The operator claimed to increase its pay offer to a further 1.5 percent in 2009, and a minimum 2 percent in 2010, which in the case of train drivers is on top of the 4.6 percent increment received in 2008. "We have improved our offer further, putting more cash on the table, but after reaching what we believed to be a deal, Aslef withdrew their agreement," said Andrew Chivers, Managing director of NXEA. "Aslef are simply determined to continue to disrupt the lives of thousands of people completely unnecessarily. We have asked them as a sign of good faith to halt the strikes, they refused. We have asked them to table the improved offer to staff, they refused," he added. The rail company is currently operating an hourly service from London's Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a major railway station and connected London Underground station in the north eastern corner of the City of London in England. to Stansted airport, apart from services to Colchester and Norwich, to Southend and to Cambridge. Tickets will be accepted on services run by c2c, First Capital Connect and East Midlands Trains East Midlands Trains is a new train operating company, based in Derby, that will operate railway services in the East Midlands and surrounding areas. The franchise will be formed through the amalgamation of the current Midland Mainline (MML) franchise, which operates inter-city during the strike period. 
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