Tube Workers To Strike
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Tube workers in London are to take five days of strike action in the coming weeks over ticket office closures, the RMT has said.
Members of the union will walk out from 9pm on Monday April 28 for two days and again from 9pm on Monday May 5 for three days.
The first two days of action will take place ahead of a May Day event in London in memory of former RMT leader Bob Crow, and politician and campaigner Tony Benn, who died within days of each other last month.
RMT acting general secretary Mick Cash said assurances given when the union suspended a planned strike earlier this month had been "ripped up and thrown back in our faces".
Mr Cash blamed Tube management for "cynically wrecking" long-running talks aimed at settling a dispute over the closure of ticket offices and subsequent job losses.
He said: "Staff are furious that while senior management pay and staffing levels are being allowed to roar ahead the jobs and pay of the core, station-based staff, who are the interface with the travelling public are being torn to ribbons.
"The assurances that were given at the time RMT suspended the original action for a proper evaluation of the cuts plans have been ripped up and thrown back in our faces.
"As a result, RMT has no option but to put on further strike action in the expectation that the management will now halt these dangerous cuts plans and engage in meaningful and serious talks on the future of a tube network running at full tilt, with further demands in the pipeline, which needs more staff and not less to operate safely."
Workers from the TSSA rail union - including Transport for London managers and supervisors - have also voted to go on strike in a separate row over pay.
http://news.sky.com/story/1244489/tube-workers-to-strike-for-five-days
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I say fair play to them but it probably won't do any good. Except it might he a good way for some Londoners to get fitter!
Oh, you can walk too.
All of the buses would be overcrowded. I'm guessing either you drive or you don't live in.London.
I've said it before - if Boris had one purpose in life, it was to crush the RMT and de-unionise the Tube. I do not understand why he has not done so.
I live in London. I took the bus and the overland last time, and the Northern line on the second day.
The biggest parasites are the politicians
Wind yer neck in
Nope, this kind of reaction to them is getting stupid now.
Do you use the tube a lot?
They are on great money, with great perks, and that wont change, if they want more, they just down tools and london grinds to a halt.
There is no tube in Western NI
And, indeed, the Tube, which was largely running last time around.
Largely running? Is that a joke?
In a word no.
No... wait until nurses strike later this year!
The first day of the strike was incredibly effective so I'm not sure what you are on about!
Bob Crow RIP
They will not the RCN {Royal college of Nursing} has a no strike rule.
Indeed i echo that sentiment.:(