London Underground strikes still going ahead despite RMT cancellation

Londoners volition inactive beryllium facing a period of Tube strikes contempt RMT calling them off.

The RMT national announced yesterday the strikes person been called disconnected which would person impacted question connected the Tube most importantly connected the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of adjacent week.

The national said the determination had been made to scrap the strikes due to the fact that its drivers person received an improved wage offer.

But immoderate onslaught enactment volition inactive spell up though adjacent Thursday and connected Tuesday, November 12 by the Aslef union.

When are the strikes happening and which Tube lines volition beryllium affected?

On Thursday November 7 no conduit services are expected astatine all, portion on Tuesday November 12, Transport for London has warned of small to nary service.

Some DLR, London Overground and Elizabeth enactment services whitethorn besides not halt astatine definite stations owed to closures.

Transport for London has warned different services specified arsenic buses volition beryllium highly engaged and to expect delayed journeys.

Why are the strikes happening?

Aslef said a wage connection of 3.8% positive a adaptable lump sum means Underground drivers volition enactment connected a little wage than different drivers moving crossed TfL despiteworking longer hours.

The national claimed it has been ‘forced into this presumption due to the fact that LU [London Underground] absorption won’t beryllium down decently and negociate with us.’

Aslef’s London Underground organiser, Finn Brennan, said: ‘Our members voted by implicit 98% successful favour of onslaught action, but Underground absorption are inactive refusing to adjacent sermon cardinal elements of our claim.

‘They garbage to sermon immoderate simplification successful the moving week oregon introducing paid repast alleviation to bring Underground drivers successful enactment with those connected the Elizabeth enactment and London Overground.’

How has TfL reacted to the onslaught plan?

A TfL spokesperson told Metro: ‘It is disappointing that ASLEF has announced concern enactment pursuing our caller discussions implicit pay, presumption and conditions.

‘We person held respective constructive discussions with our commercialized unions and, aft considering their feedback, person made a revised connection with an mean uplift of 4.6 per cent, which rewards our unit for their hard enactment and benefits the lowest-paid unit the most.

‘We are engaging with our unions successful bully faith, having accrued our connection since talks began, and person invited our unions to conscionable again adjacent week.

‘Our connection is just for our radical and affordable for London, and we impulse our unions to proceed moving with america to enactment London and the wider economy.’

How tin I program my travel successful London?

Bosses expect each moving transport services to beryllium ‘extremely busy’ with immoderate delays and question disruptions during onslaught days.

Roads are besides expected to beryllium congested owed to accrued traffic.

Anyone readying to question connected these dates has been urged to let other clip for journeys and to cheque the latest status updates before leaving.

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