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After just over a week of chaos in Stockholm’s commuter train traffic, the trains have so far on Thursday rolled on without major disturbances, according to SL.
At the same time, another 37 train drivers are being sued for the wild strike last week.
On Wednesday, the tours around Stockholm’s commuter train traffic took a new turn when the Work Environment Agency decided to lift the protective stop against lone work on the trains, which the unions ST Pendeln and Seko imposed on Monday.
The authority justified the decision by saying that it considered that MTR had taken sufficient measures to ensure that the lone work could take place in a safe way for the staff.
Roger Delin, chairman of ST’s club on the MTR commuter trains, says on Thursday that the union’s board is in a meeting during the day to decide how to proceed after the Work Environment Authority’s decision. He currently has no further comments.
At the same time, Tågföretagen and Almega are suing another 37 train drivers who participated in the three-day wild, illegal strike last week, Arbetsvärlden reports.
They are required, just like their 73 colleagues who were sued last week, for SEK 6,000 each, according to the newspaper.
As of Thursday, half of the commuter trains are only manned by train drivers – not with train drivers and train conductors as the unions require. The justification is that the number of incidents has increased since MTR introduced solo work on every second train in March.
However, it has not led to any major disturbances in traffic so far during the day, according to Stockholms lokaltrafik, SL.
– Things are going quite well, says Natalie Nordenswan, press communicator at SL.