Tube strike 2016: Here’s TfL’s travel advice for when Piccadilly Line is out of service on Wednesday evening and Thursday March 21, 2016 TfL has hit out at Tube driver unions over plans for a strike on the Piccadilly Line later this week. Drivers on the line who are union members are currently planning to strike from 9pm on Wednesday 23 March for 24 hours. Although the strike starts at 9pm, London Underground is aiming to keep services going [...]
Night Tube under threat from another strike as RMT fights to improve offer for engineering staff on Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern Lines March 16, 2016 Just when you thought it was safe to plan for the start of the 24-hour Tube, another strike looms large. London's largest transport union RMT is balloting its 1,500 engineering staff who maintain the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern Lines, and it is thought that members will vote for industrial action. It has written to Transport [...]
Strike dates confirmed by RMT after tube drivers vote to go on strike on London Underground’s Piccadilly line after breakdown in industrial relations March 9, 2016 The RMT has confirmed strike dates after tube drivers on the Piccadilly line voted to go on strike following a breakdown in industrial relations. The union said there had been an overwhelming vote after a "comprehensive" breakdown in industrial relations. RMT has instructed all train operators and instructor operators not to book on for shifts after [...]
Night Tube: Aslef’s London Underground drivers vote in favour of latest TfL deal after months of negotiations March 7, 2016 After months of negotiations Tube drivers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of accepting the latest deal offered by Transport for London. The London Underground drivers, who are members of the union Aslef, voted with a majority of nearly nine-to-one in favour of the latest pay and conditions terms offered by TfL around the Night Tube [...]
Night Tube: 24-hour weekend service on the Central, Jubilee, Nothern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines could finally get the go-ahead March 6, 2016 Tube train drivers' union Aslef is to vote on a new pay deal tomorrow – and it's going to back the offer. It will be the second union to approve the deal, after RMT announced last week that 84 per cent of its membership had voted in favour of it. A third union, TSSA, has [...]
Night Tube back on track? RMT members vote in favour of new deal – and here’s the pay rises drivers have agreed March 1, 2016 Members of the biggest transport union RMT have backed a new deal in a move that could – finally – pave the way for the Night Tube to launch. The deal, which has been overwhelmingly accepted in a ballot revealed this afternoon, comes after months of wrangling between Transport for London and the unions, including TSSA and [...]
TfL Tube strike February 2016 update: RMT calls off London Underground maintenance workers’ strikes on Friday and Saturday 12 and 13 February – but more action is on the way February 10, 2016 The RMT union has called off a strike of Tube maintenance workers, planned to take place on Friday and Saturday. The strike, over what RMT called "basic safety issues", was set to last for 24 hours, from 6.30am on Friday. But today the union put out a statement saying it had received confirmation changes to [...]
TfL Tube strike 2016: First of seven 24-hour London Underground strikes to run from Friday 12 February – here is everything you need to know February 9, 2016 The first of seven 12 and 24-hour strikes is scheduled to take place this Friday in a fight over "basic safety issues". Commuters might have breathed a sigh of relief when first the Night Tube and then the ticket closure strikes were called off at the last minute – but this action is entirely separate, and likely [...]
Tube strike 6 and 8 February 2016: Union RMT calls off weekend’s strike action over ticket office cuts February 5, 2016 RMT has called off its 24-hour strike at the 11th hour, preventing disruption that would have started on Saturday evening and continued until late Monday night. The union said it had carried out a "long and hard fought campaign", which had resulted in "significant progress in the talks". "[That] has enabled us to now suspend all [...]
Tube strike 2016: This weekend’s RMT action would be illegal under new Trade Union Bill laws Labour candidate Sadiq Khan opposes February 5, 2016 Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith and his Labour opponent Sadiq Khan are trading harsh words over this weekend’s RMT strike, with both candidates saying more industrial action is likely to happen under their rival’s watch. Goldsmith’s team said the strikes planned for this weekend would be illegal under the government’s Trade Union Bill – a [...]