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STAFF on London Underground’s District Line launched industrial action today to protect themselves from increasing violence at work.
Members of rail union RMT are refusing to attend incidents on trains on their own, and if working alone will do so only from a safe place.
Tube staff at West Ham were attacked last week, a member of the public at Hillingdon was fatally stabbed, and British Transport Police reported a 40 per cent increase in sexual assaults over the past four years.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: “Clearly, the safety and security situation for both staff and passengers on London Underground is spiralling out of control.
“RMT has warned repeatedly that the all-out drive towards an automated and faceless Tube would turn our trains and stations into a criminals’ paradise and those who have ignored those warnings should act now before more serious injuries or worse occur on the Tube.”
