The first of a series of 24-hour strikes by London Underground drivers ended at noon on Wednesday, but further walkouts are planned in the coming months.<\/p>\n
The strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) crippled services again on Wednesday morning, causing travel disruption for commuters and visitors.<\/p>\n
Another 24-hour strike will start at 12 noon on Thursday, disrupting services for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n
Transport for London (TfL) continued to urge passengers to check before they travel.<\/p>\n
The union, which is in dispute over changes to the working week, is planning four more 24-hour strikes in May and June unless the row is resolved.<\/p>\n
Pubs and restaurants in London fear that this week\u2019s strikes will have a big impact on their business.<\/p>\n
RMT official Jared Wood said union members felt strongly about the issues at the heart of the dispute.<\/p>\n
He told the Press Association the row was not just about a four-day week, saying other issues were involved such as the length of shifts and changes to annual leave.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cTfL need to come forward with changes to their proposals for this dispute to be resolved.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is absolute unanimity among our members that we have to fight these proposals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first of a series of 24-hour strikes by London Underground drivers ended at noon on Wednesday, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[62121,51,89504,52398,174046,174047,45029,594,148298,45030,142364,11513,135010,16,15,89505,256072],"class_list":["post-911328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bakerloo-line","tag-business","tag-central-line","tag-circle-line","tag-district-line","tag-hammersmith-and-city-line","tag-jubilee-line","tag-london-underground","tag-metropolitan-line","tag-northern-line","tag-piccadilly-line","tag-transport-for-london","tag-tube-strike","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-victoria-line","tag-waterloo-city-line"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116449039162618010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911328","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=911328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}