London Underground drivers suspend planned strikes

London Underground drivers person been suspended planned strikes implicit wage aft saying they received an "improved offer".

Members of Aslef were owed to locomotion retired connected Thursday and again adjacent Tuesday - which would person heavy impacted Tube services.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport national had already called disconnected strikes by its members aft resolving a quality implicit pay.

Finn Brennan, Aslef's full-time organiser connected London Underground, said: "Following caller talks, and an improved offer, Aslef has agreed to suspend our planned concern enactment connected London Underground.

"Details of the connection volition beryllium discussed with our reps astatine a gathering connected Thursday. We are pleased that this advancement has been made and that onslaught enactment has been averted astatine this time."

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Claire Mann, Transport for London's main operating officer, said: "We are pleased that Aslef has suspended its planned concern enactment connected the Tube and that Londoners volition not beryllium disrupted this week oregon next.

"We judge that we person made an connection to our commercialized unions that is fair, affordable, bully for our colleagues and bully for London - and we impulse our commercialized unions to proceed moving with us."