MAINTAINENCE and safety engineers who work on the East Coast Mainline have voted overwhelming for strikes in a dispute over pay.
Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association , who are employed by Network Rail, are involved in a row over back payments.
TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes said: "We're talking about a small, dedicated team of highly skilled graduates who have willingly complied with every safety training course regulation to which they are professionally bound.
"They don't want to walk off the job, they just want to be paid their due.
"The money owed to these staff year on year really stacks up - one of our members is owed a total of £60,000 dating back over 10 years."
The union said services on the East Coast route would be affected, unless Network Rail agreed to enter immediate talks to resolve the issue.
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