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1st strike set for 6 September others planned for Sunday October 3; Tuesday November 2, and Sunday November 28.
Travel Desk - 12:45pm
London's tube system will come to a standstill following a decision by the RMT and the TSSA with "a rolling series of strikes on September 6" against plans to axe 800 station and other staff and close ticket-offices, after the RMT and TSSA members voted overwhelmingly for action to defend jobs and safety.
Ex-Metronet (maintenance and engineering) staff will begin their first 24-hour strike at 17:00 on September 6, with similar action also scheduled to begin at the same time on Sunday October 3; Tuesday November 2, and Sunday November 28.
Other LUL grades (including station and revenue staff, operational managers, drivers and signallers) will start their first 24-hour strike at 21:00 on Monday September 6, with similar action also set to start at the same time on Sunday October 3; Tuesday November 2, and Sunday November 28.
An indefinite overtime ban for all LUL members of both unions will start at a minute after midnight on Monday September 6. Timings and forms of action may also be varied.
RMT general secretary Bob Crow said:
“LUL and the mayor must understand that the cuts they want to impose are unacceptable to our members and will undermine safety and service for the travelling public.
“The mayor was elected on a promise of maintaining safe staffing levels and he is doing the opposite, planning to leave stations and platforms dangerously understaffed and threatening to turn the network into a muggers’ paradise.”
“We have already had potential disasters narrowly averted, with fires at Euston and Oxford Circus and a runaway train on the Northern Line, and Boris Johnson’s planned cuts would deal a potentially fatal blow to the ability to deal with emergencies.”
TSSA general secretary Gerry Doherty said:
"Boris Johnson may be prepared to go into the Olympic Games with a second-class Tube service when the eyes of the world will be on the capital: we are not.
"We will defend a vital public service on which millions of people depend every day of their working lives.
“We will not see jobs and services sacrificed to pay for the sins of the City of London and Wall Street."
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