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Another 24 hour strike on the tube is announced.
Last month the entire Victoria line was suspended as a drivers strike choked the underground.
Nearly 200 tube drivers on London’s busiest line will walk out 9pm tomorrow over “safety and harassment” and are not set to return to work until 8.59pm Thursday.
Rail and Maritime and Transport described the strike from train operators working out of the Seven Sisters depot, “rock solid”.
174 million people use London’s busiest tube line every year, 600,000 every day – Transport for London have called the industrial action “completely unnecessary.”
“Bullying and harassment”
The union have accused London Underground management of “bullying, harassment and victimization” of a RMT activist and demand the reinstatement of a sacked college.
At the heart of the dispute is the Correct Door Side Enabling Equipment which ensures doors on the right side of the platform are opened and is in operation on all other lines – except the Victoria.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow accused LU of “penny pinching” that is “puts both our members and the general public at risk.”
Dispute “not about safety”
London Underground Chief Operating Officer Howard Collins said the dispute “was not about safety”. Adding:
“This dispute is about the actions of one RMT member, a Victoria Line driver, who put passenger safety at risk and then compounded his error by failing to follow the correct safety procedures.
This will not be resolved by further strike action, which will only lose RMT members more pay and inconvenience thousands of Londoners, who rightly expect us to uphold safety standards on the Tube.” RMT leader Bob Crow said management intransigence has “forced” his members into action. Adding:
“We know very well the disruption that the action will cause but we will not sit back while managers play fast and loose with train safety and while our members and activists are subjected to intimidation, bullying and victimisation.”
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