Tube strike: Commuters face travel chaos next week
GETTY London commuters will face travel chaos as Tube drivers have announced another strike on February 21
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union on parts of the Tube's Central line will walk out for 15 hours from 9pm on February 21. The drivers went on strike last month in the same dispute, disrupting services on the Central and Waterloo and City lines. Mick Cash, RMT general secretary, said: "RMT negotiators have made strenuous efforts through the Acas machinery to resolve this dispute but the door has been slammed in our faces.
GETTY Drivers are in a dispute with London Underground over 'displacement' of staff
Staff across London Underground are angry Mick Cash, RMT general secretary
"To up the ante, LU have now written to us confirming that they will be bulldozing through the displacements regardless. "Let us be in no doubt, if LU are allowed to get away with this move on the Central line they will start shunting drivers around at the drop of a hat regardless of the consequences. "Our members will be sent out from pillar to post to plug gaps that are solely down to staffing shortages. With massive budget cuts in the pipeline at LU this is a straw in the wind as to how the company expects to operate in the future.
Tube Strike: London in chaos Mon, January 9, 2017 Hundreds of thousands of commuters stood in the cold and rain queuing for over-stuffed buses as they battled to get to work as the RMT forced closure of the entire Tube network. Play slideshow 1 of 16
GETTY The strike will last 15 hours from 9pm