RMT union calls for 24-hour Tube strike on March 1 and March 3
Tube users face MORE strike chaos: RMT union calls for 24-hour walkout on March 1 and March 3 over ‘financial crisis engineered by the government’
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London Underground passengers face major disruption next month after union bosses announced they would go on strike, accusing the Government of having ‘deliberately engineered’ a financial crisis on the transport network.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union revealed today that all Tube staff had been ‘instructed to refuse to book on for any duty’ which begins from midnight to midnight on both Tuesday, March 1 and Thursday, March 3.
RMT boss Mick Lynch blamed the Government for causing financial issues at Transport for London to ‘drive a cuts’ agenda which would savage jobs, services, safety and threaten their working conditions and pensions’.
The general secretary of the union added in a statement this morning that ‘these are the very same transport staff praised as heroes for carrying London through Covid for nearly two years, often at serious personal risk’.
The RMT said that the action was taking place because of the ‘continuing refusal to give assurances on jobs, pensions and working conditions in the midst of an on-going financial crisis driven by central Government’.
The London-based union added that the announcement ‘comes in the wake of a recent ballot of over 10,000 members across all grades of London Underground staff with 94 per cent of members voted to strike’.
The newly-announced strikes are separate to the ongoing Night Tube industrial action, which is seeing RMT members on the Central and Victoria lines walking out for eight hours on Friday and Saturday evenings until June.
Commuters get off a London Underground train in the capital on Monday after the last of the Plan B measures were dropped
Passengers on board a London Underground Victoria line train travel through the capital on Monday
Commuters with face coverings ride a London Underground train through the capital on Monday morning
Passengers walk along the platform at a London Underground station during the morning rush hour on Monday
Mr Lynch said today: ‘Our members will be taking strike action next month because a financial crisis at LUL has been deliberately engineered by the Government to drive a cuts’ agenda which would savage jobs, services, safety and threaten their working conditions and pensions.
‘These are the very same transport staff praised as heroes for carrying London through Covid for nearly two years, often at serious personal risk, who now have no option but to strike to defend their livelihoods.
‘The politicians need to wake up to the fact that transport staff will not pay the price for this cynically engineered crisis. In addition to the strike action RMT is coordinating a campaign of resistance with colleagues from other unions impacted by this threat. The union remains available for talks aimed at resolving the dispute.’
MailOnline has contacted both Transport for London and the Department for Transport for comment today.
