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TUBE drivers expected to give up social life to work longer hours for no extra pay on all-night trains were balloted for strike action yesterday, writes Alana MacAskill.
Rail unions Aslef and RMT are balloting members on London Underground in a dispute over pay and the company’s decision to impose new rosters requiring unlimited weekend and night shifts without additional pay in compensation.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash branded the decision “outrageous” and said it was a “vanity project” on the part of London Mayor Boris Johnson who was trying to “bully staff” into accepting the new practices.
Bosses have “closed down the negotiations and written to us to say that they intend to go ahead and implement new rosters, with unlimited weekend and night shifts, without agreement,” said Aslef district organiser Finn Brennan.
He added that workers had a right to a family life and a work-life balance.
All-night services will start on September 12 on the Jubilee, Victoria, Piccadilly, Central and Northern lines before being extended across the Tube.
