Fifty members of the United Kingdom's Parliament are pressuring the Government to implement stricter strike laws to prevent any further Southern Rail walkouts. The railway workers have been staging walkouts to protest driver safety concerns since April and have affected over 300,000 commuters. The members of Parliament are pushing a new law that would prohibit bus and rail workers from striking because their workplaces would be considered "critical public infrastructure".
See "Fifty MPs demand anti-strike laws to stop further misery from transport unions", Ben Riley-Smith, Telegraph, January 16, 2017