music journalist matt charlton talking to my colleague i charlton talking to my colleague sarah campbellthese in west sussex have had to get used to it. if you want to go to work instead of being stuck at home, yeah, it disrupts normal everyday life 100%. i don't understand why there's so many. i haven't been able to go into work as frequently as i otherwise would do. i understand why the unions have been striking and i've supported them throughout. today's news means the end of rmt walk—outs — for now, at least. in march, maintenance workers and signallers accepted a deal, but thousands of other union members who work for the companies which run the trains continued strikes. they've now accepted proposals involving a backdated pay rise for last year of 5%, more for the lowest paid, and job security guarantees, but a pay rise for the current financial year will still depend on agreeing changes to ways of working that the government and industry say are needed. discussions on that will continue next year, with individual operators. we'll renegotiate in the new year, in the spring time, an