Network Rail offers workers pay rises in bid to avert further strikes

Network Rail, which owns Britain’s train infrastructure, has offered workers at two unions pay rises in a bid to avert further crippling strikes this summer.

The state-owned company said it had offered the RMT union a 5 per cent pay rise in a two-year deal, which also included a promise of no compulsory redundancies.

The offer was contingent on members accepting far-reaching reforms, particularly for maintenance workers.

Negotiators…