London Underground employees will stage a sequence of strikes for seven days subsequent month in a dispute over pay and circumstances.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) stated its Tube members will take industrial motion at totally different occasions from 5 September.
The union claimed administration had refused to have interaction severely with its calls for on pay, fatigue administration, shift patterns and a discount within the working week.
In a separate dispute over pay and circumstances, RMT members on London’s Docklands Mild Railway can even be placing within the week starting 7 September.
RMT normal secretary Eddie Dempsey stated: “Our members are doing a improbable job to maintain our capital transferring and work strenuous shift patterns to ensure Londoners get to their locations across the clock.
“They don’t seem to be after a King’s ransom, however fatigue and excessive shift rotations are critical points impacting on our members’ well being and wellbeing – all of which haven’t been adequately addressed for years by LU administration.
“Coupled with the very fact there are excellent points round workers journey preparations, an environment of mistrust has been created, the place our members really feel like no-one is listening to them.
“RMT will proceed to have interaction LU administration with a view to in search of a revised provide to be able to attain a negotiated settlement.”
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A Transport for London spokesperson stated: “We repeatedly meet with our commerce unions to debate any considerations that they might have, and we not too long ago met with the RMT to debate some particular factors.
“We’re dedicated to making sure our colleagues are handled pretty and, in addition to providing a 3.4% pay enhance in our ongoing pay discussions, now we have made progress on quite a few commitments now we have made beforehand.
“We welcome additional engagement with our unions about fatigue and rostering throughout London Underground, however a discount within the contractual 35-hour working week is neither sensible nor inexpensive.
“Given the enhancements now we have not too long ago put in place in response to considerations raised by our unions, we urge the RMT to place our truthful, inexpensive pay provide to their members and to proceed to have interaction with us moderately than threaten strike motion, which is able to solely disrupt Londoners.”
