Your complete London Underground community may very well be in chaos subsequent week as strikes are set to go forward over two days.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Union confirmed its 10,000 members will stroll out on Tuesday and Thursday (March 1 and three).
The strikes will final from a minute previous midnight till a minute to midnight, and can severely have an effect on all Tube traces.
Transport for London (TfL) warns there could also be no service in any respect on the London Underground on these days, and providers on Wednesday and Friday are anticipated to be severely impacted too.
Employees are protesting over TfL’s choice to chop 500 to 600 Tube station roles to economize and evaluation its beneficiant pension scheme.
TfL has mentioned no employees will lose their job and the cuts will likely be made by not filling empty posts and when folks select to go away or retire.
RMT common secretary Mick Lynch mentioned: ‘Our members will likely be taking strike motion subsequent week as a result of a monetary disaster at London Underground has been intentionally engineered by the Authorities to drive a cuts agenda which might savage jobs, providers, security and threaten working circumstances and pensions.
‘The sheer scale of that menace was confirmed in talks.
‘These are the exact same transport employees praised as heroes for carrying London via Covid for almost two years, usually at severe private danger, who now don't have any possibility however to strike to defend their livelihoods.
‘The politicians must get up to the truth that transport employees is not going to pay the worth for this cynically engineered disaster.
‘Along with the strike motion RMT is co-ordinating a marketing campaign of resistance with colleagues from different unions impacted by this menace.’
The affirmation of the strike motion comes after talks with conciliation service Acas broke down.
RMT mentioned it set out a framework which may have suspended the motion, however claimed TfL ‘dragged its heels’ and blocked a path to progress.
It added it now fears ‘nothing is off the desk’ by way of the menace to employees sooner or later.
Andy Lord, Transport for London’s chief working officer, mentioned: ‘This can be very disappointing that the RMT is planning to go forward with this motion.
‘TfL hasn’t proposed any adjustments to pensions or phrases and circumstances, and no person has or will lose their jobs due to the proposals we've got set out.
‘I hope the RMT will get across the desk with us, proceed talks and name off this disruptive motion, which is able to trigger large frustration for our clients and additional monetary injury to TfL and London’s economic system after we needs to be working collectively to rebuild following the pandemic.
‘If the RMT does go forward with this motion, then anybody who must journey on March 1 and three ought to examine earlier than they make their journey, contemplate whether or not they're able to make money working from home and use various modes of transport the place doable.
‘I perceive the frustration this proposed strike motion will inevitably trigger, and may guarantee clients that we're doing every little thing we are able to to mitigate the impacts.
‘Making journeys will likely be harder if the RMT’s strike goes forward, so I urge any clients to please be thoughtful in the direction of one another and TfL employees.’
Acas mentioned it remained in touch with the events.
RMT Union members have additionally been hanging in a single day on the Central and Victoria traces each Friday and Saturday, and this motion is predicted to proceed till mid-June.
Evening Tube employees stay in a deadlocked dispute over shifts as TfL tries to convey again its in a single day providers post-pandemic.
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