{"id":409807,"date":"2025-09-09T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409807\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:03:11","slug":"london-tube-strike-enters-third-day-with-more-disruption-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/409807\/","title":{"rendered":"London Tube strike enters third day with more disruption expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan echoed the call and described the industrial action as &#8220;bad news for London&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;TfL have made clear they can&#8217;t afford its workers working fewer hours for more pay, but they are willing to talk to the RMT and other unions whenever there is a dispute and to try and resolve things amicably,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The transport body has offered RMT members a pay increase of 3.4% but argue that reducing their work week to 32 hours would cost hundreds of millions of pounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jared Wood, an organiser with the RMT, said: &#8220;They&#8217;re throwing in everything they can imagine to come up with a figure of hundreds of millions \u2013 it would not be near hundreds of millions to make real progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the end of this week we hope to be in meaningful discussions where the company comes up with a way of resolving this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan echoed the call and described the industrial action as &#8220;bad news for London&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-409807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115173064943370736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409807","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=409807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}