Nicola Sturgeon urged to intervene over ScotRail strikes ahead of COP26 summit in Glasgow

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Nicola Sturgeon is being urged to personally intervene to resolve a rail dispute which could see staff strike during the COP26 climate change summit.

Mick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT union, accused rail bosses of having “dragged their heels over further talks”, despite the fact that the “clock is ticking” to the start of the summit.

Thousands of delegates from across the globe, including US president Joe Biden, will be in Scotland for the crucial climate change talks, which get under way on October 31.

With that in mind, Lynch said he had now written to the First Minister “calling on her to intervene as a matter of urgency to bring about a fair resolution” to the dispute.In his letter to Sturgeon, he said: “It is completely within