The RMT Tube union has revealed the dates their members will go on strike.
The strikes are planned for between 9 and 24 hours from Monday 16 May to Friday 20 May. More are planned from Monday 13 June to Friday 17 June:
- between 21:01 on Monday 16 May and 11:59 on Tuesday 17 May
- between 12:00 on Wednesday 18 May and 11:59 on Thursday 19 May
- between 12:00 on Friday 20 May and 21:00 on Friday 20 May
All London Underground train driver members have been instructed not to book on for any duty that also commences:
- between 21:01 on Monday 13 June and 11:59 on Tuesday 14 June
- between 12:00 on Wednesday 15 June and 11:59 on Thursday 16 June
- between 12:00 on Friday 17 June and 21:00 on Friday 17 June
Last week the union announced their members had voted by ‘almost two to one for strike action’ because of on-going disputes over the treatment of two driver members and job cuts to LU staff.
RMT say the two drivers have been ‘victimised’ because of their union membership and have both lost their jobs with London Underground.
Eamon Lynch and Arwyn Thomas are still on full pay due to ‘interim relief’ hearings at Employment Tribunals, where they are claiming unfair dismissal.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said:
“This massive vote for action by tube drivers shows that they are well aware of the consequences of allowing our activists and safety reps to be picked off while we hear daily reports of breakdowns and failures on the network as a direct result of the very cuts that our members have been fighting.”
Transport for London has previously denied the two drivers were unfairly dismissed.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said LU’s cuts have “left us with no choice but to name these dates for strike action.”
What a load of crap. when these guys stirke they cause all pepole to loose money on their Oyster cards and for those of us that are self-employed it causes problems as we do not get paid if we ddo not work??/
I feel sorry for all the GSCE and A level students that have exams during this time What have they done that the rail drivers should be picking on them??
 What a pointless thing to do! Every time there’s a strike more and more people start to use other means of transport cause it’s unreliable, and tfl are losing customers. They know that they are making a lot of inconvenience, and they still do it anyway. They don’t even achieve anything from these strikes that are significant. And as Helen said, why let the GCSE and A-Level students suffer? These exams are important and lead to their future!
i have exam on the 18 may and they decide to have a strike this is a lot of crap they shouldnt be striking we pay to travel on the rail and this is what we get in return we shouldnt be the ones suffering we did not cause any job cuts or anythin cant belive i will have to take the bus and travel for 4 hours they should think this over i dont think striking is a good idea.
Here we go again. 4 strike dates in June. I work for the NHS. If we all went on strike for one person’s job, people would die. It’s unbelievably selfish of these drivers!
An employment tribunal has ruled that a driver was unlawfully sacked by management that actively colluded in a bid to oust an employee because of his union affiliation. They went as far as writing this down and then tried to deny ever saying it. So…
Those refusing to see why strikes, or the threat thereof, may be necessary could more usefully direct their ire toward the people at the top of the organisation, rather than those who would much rather not be striking but have to act in order not to be shafted, or allow a culture of shafting to develop. Â It is a sadness that society has reached a point where the users of a service, rather than supporting those who make the service possible, would rather further contribute toward the enormous divisions that are being created within society. Â Once we are all divided and fighting each other then those at the top get to do as they please, whilst we all tear each other to pieces fighting for the scraps of what is left after society has been looted. Â And before anyone starts moaning on about working in a place where there is no union because it got smashed up by Thatcher and her brigade of lunatics then, as somebody put it elsewhere: I’m sorry your house got burgled, but do you really expect people to accept your suggestion that they should not try to defend theirs from the same thing? Â
Unions should be disbanded and made illegal. I understand why unions were important a long time ago, but employees have so many rights and so much legal protection now, that they are completely unnecessary. The unions should not be bullying TFL into re-employing this person, it is the job of the tribunal to decide whether he should be re-employed.
Get your lazy, overpaid ar*es back to work and stop bleating on about whatever crap you bleat on about.
A monkey could be trained to perform the job you do!