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THOUSANDS of London Underground workers are to stage two 24-hour strikes next month in a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions, RMT confirmed today.
The transport union said that around 10,000 of its members will walk out on March 1 and 3.
RMT wants assurances over jobs, pay, pensions and working conditions after a series of short-term Tory funding deals for Transport for London (TfL).
General secretary Mick Lynch slammed a financial crisis which has been “deliberately engineered by the government to drive a cuts agenda which would savage jobs, services, safety and threaten working conditions.
“These are the very same transport staff praised as heroes for carrying London through Covid, often at serious personal risk, who now have no option but to strike to defend their livelihoods.
“Politicians need to wake up to the fact that transport staff will not pay the price for this cynically engineered crisis.”
TfL’s Andy Lord said: “The devastating impact of the pandemic on finances has made a programme of change urgently necessary.
“We’re urging [RMT] to do the right thing for London, talk to us and call off this unnecessary action.”
