{"id":362184,"date":"2025-08-21T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362184\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:53:16","slug":"london-underground-staff-to-walkout-over-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362184\/","title":{"rendered":"London Underground staff to walkout over pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755184337_952_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c51f2b30-7e90-11f0-ab3e-bd52082cd0ae.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Getty Images passengers on board a crowded tube train\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>London Underground staff will strike from 5 September for seven days<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">There will be rolling strike action across the London Underground (LU) beginning on Friday 5 September for seven days, the RMT union has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The union claimed transport bosses refused to engage with them over pay, fatigue management, extreme shift patterns and a reduction in the working week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: &#8220;Fatigue and extreme shift rotations are serious issues impacting on our members health and wellbeing- all of which have not been adequately addressed for years by LU management.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A Transport for London (TfL) spokesperson said: &#8220;We urge the RMT to put our fair, affordable pay offer to their members and to continue to engage with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">On Thursday, RMT accused management of a &#8220;dismissive approach&#8221;, adding this had &#8220;fuelled widespread anger and distrust&#8221; among the workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"> Staff at different grades will be taking industrial action at different times as part of rolling strike action, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">TfL&#8217;s spokesperson said: &#8220;We regularly meet with our trade unions to discuss any concerns that they may have, and we recently met with the RMT to discuss some specific points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We are committed to ensuring our colleagues are treated fairly and, as well as offering a 3.4% pay increase in our ongoing pay discussions, we have made progress on a number of commitments we have made previously. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We welcome further engagement with our unions about fatigue and rostering across London Underground, but a reduction in the contractual 35-hour working week is neither practical nor affordable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In a separate dispute over pay and conditions, workers on the Docklands Light Railway will also be striking during this period in the week beginning 7 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Dempsey added: &#8220;RMT will continue to engage LU management with a view to seeking a revised offer in order to reach a negotiated settlement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images London Underground staff will strike from 5 September for seven days There will be rolling strike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-362184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115067093317256393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}