November Tube strikes explained – exact dates and lines affected

The London Underground web is acceptable to beryllium unopen down oregon severely disrupted erstwhile workers strike connected respective days implicit the coming weeks.

Aslef, the bid drivers’ union, and RMT, which represents astir different Tube workers, precocious announced the enactment aft rejecting a wage connection from Transport for London (TfL).

Their members volition signifier walk-outs connected assorted days betwixt November 1 and November 16, with services affected to antithetic degrees depending connected the action.

Aslef says members don’t ‘want to marque travelling successful and astir the superior much hard for passengers and we don’t privation to suffer a day’s pay’ but is accusing Tube bosses of refusing to ‘sit down decently and negociate with us’.

TfL said the enactment is ‘disappointing’ but insists it is inactive engaged successful the talks.

When volition the strikes happen?

There are 3 tons of strikes which volition person the astir important interaction connected the network.

From Sunday, November 3 until Tuesday, November 5, assorted RMT members including presumption unit and power centre workers volition strike.

RMT signallers and work controllers volition onslaught each time connected Wednesday, November 6 and Friday, November 8.

Aslef’s bid drivers, instructors and managers volition signifier 24-hour walkouts connected Thursday, November 7 and Tuesday, November 12.

There are different actions happening – specified arsenic engineering drivers striking for 24 hours from Friday, November 1 – but these aren’t expected to disrupt travel.

Keep speechmaking to find retired however services volition beryllium impacted.

Which Tube lines volition beryllium affected and how?

Any shutdowns oregon work reductions are apt to impact each lines evenly, though immoderate whitethorn acquisition much presumption closures than others.

Aslef strikes typically mean a full shutdown of the Tube network, though TfL insists lone 1 of the union’s actions volition person this effect.

Here’s a afloat database of however TfL expects services to tally connected the affected dates:

How tin I program my travel successful London?

A scope of different transport services, including the remainder of the TfL network, volition inactive beryllium moving during this period.

However DLR, London Overground and Elizabeth enactment trains whitethorn beryllium incapable to halt astatine definite stations which besides person Tube lines arsenic immoderate of these whitethorn close.

Bosses expect each moving transport services to beryllium ‘extremely busy’ with immoderate delays during this time.

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 earlier leaving.

Why is the onslaught 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.’

Mick Lynch, RMT’s wide secretary, said the London Underground wage connection ‘falls abbreviated of what our members deserve.’

He said the commercialized national cannot judge ‘any wage connection wherever absorption determine which of our members gets a wage emergence and those who bash not.’

How has TfL reacted to the onslaught plan?

A TfL spokesperson told Metro: ‘It is disappointing that ASLEF and the RMT person 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.’

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