RMT Announces Further Tube-Strike Walkouts for August

Three unions announced yesterday that they would walk out for four days, potentially crippling the tube network for almost a whole working week – but today sources at Aslef indicated that they would stay out of the industrial action.

One of the Underground’s other largest unions, the RMT, confirmed on Tuesday that its members will strike in two 24-hour walkouts scheduled to take place next week.

The train drivers’ union Aslef has yet to announce if it will join the strikes.

Talks were held today at the conciliation service Acas in a bid to break the deadlock.

But the service will now be delayed according to BBC sources.

Labour prospective Mayoral candidate Diane Abbott said: “We know that night buses are particularly important to low paid workers, it seems that Boris wants low paid men and women struggling to get to work to pay the price for the Night Tube“. Unions say proposals for the service don’t take into account the impact on personal lives.

“The £1.4bn cost would either mean our customers being hit with an extra 6.5% fares increase on top of the annual increases already assumed or wholesale cuts for plans to modernise the Circle, District, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan lines”.

Transport for London wants Friday and Saturday night timetable changes on 17 key routes, which would to reduce the frequency of some night buses serving the West End.

Bonus payments to cover a short transitional period to be paid forever, even when drivers have the individual choice whether or not to work Night Tube shifts at all.

The issue has concluded functioning circumstances until after the dark Tube is applied which happens to be now likely to be replace of its produced start date of 12 September.

LU said no responsible management could agree to the demands being made by union leaders.