Delivery secretary Mark Harper has been informed to “get again to paintings” after it was once published he has no longer met with rail unions staging strike motion since ultimate yr.

On Saturday the RMT union is taking business motion in protest at pay, jobs and dealing prerequisites.

And ASLEF staff are staging time beyond regulation bans from July 31 till August 5 after which from August 7 till August 12.

Again in Might, Harper mentioned the govt. had “accomplished our bit to take a look at and finish those disputes”.

However legitimate assembly logs display he has no longer met with the RMT or ASLEF since November and December 2022 respectively.

The logs – printed by way of the government- disclose Harper has best met with each unions as soon as since being appointed to the task in October 2022.

Louise Haigh, Labour’s shadow delivery secretary, mentioned it was once “unacceptable” that Harper had “refused to do his task while the British public have confronted over a yr of rail chaos”.

“The very least we must be expecting from the delivery secretary is to sit down down with the unions and rail operators, to take a look at and achieve an settlement to finish those moves for excellent,” she mentioned.

“The truth he has didn’t do even that suggests we will be able to safely upload the Delivery Secretary to the record of items that don’t paintings in Britain anymore.”

In a letter to Harper noticed by way of HuffPost UK, Haigh demanded the govt. name and pressing assembly between rail unions and rail operators.

“If those moves are to finish, then it is very important that you just get again to paintings and use your function to facilitate productive negotiations,” she informed him.

The logs – which have been up to date on July 20- display that whilst Harper has no longer met the 2 unions this yr, his junior rail minister Huw Merriman did grasp conferences in January.