The London Daily News

News Desk

The RMT is expected to announce a series of strikes on London's underground network with business groups already warning of "massive disruption" to the London economy.

The strikes organised to protest against job cuts are scheduled for the week beginning September 6, the day the House of Commons resumes after the summer break.

Commenting on the news that the RMT is to announce a series of 24-hour tube strikes in September, Colin Stanbridge, Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) said:

"If these strikes go ahead it will cause massive disruption to London's firms and damage our city's reputation as a reliable place to do business.  Each day the Underground is shut it will cost the London economy £48 million and hamper the recovery of all sorts of companies still hungover from a crippling world wide recession."

"The RMT need to accept that everyone in the private and public sectors are having to do more with less nowadays and understand that holding millions of commuters to ransom is an unacceptable response to not having its demands met."