‘No Strike Deal’: More Tube Strikes Under Boris Than Ken
Despite manifesto promises of a no strike deal, there have been more tube strikes under two and a half years of Boris than eight years of Ken.
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Monday Miscellanea
More Londony trivia for a Monday morning.
RMT Ballots Members For Possible Southeastern Strike
The RMT are balloting staff members at Southeastern on possible strike action over job cuts and changes at Charing Cross and Victoria stations.
Tube Strike Is Underway
The latest 24-hour Tube strike by members of the RMT and TSSA unions is underway, meaning that services will be disrupted across most London Underground lines until Tuesday morning.
DLR Strike Days Announced
A trio of one-day strikes on the Docklands Light Railway has been announced. Workers attached to the RMT will walk out on the 23rd and 27th of July, and again on August 6th. The beef this time round is with what the RMT calls “increased …
RMT Votes For Strike On Tube Lines
As warned, RMT members on the old Tube Lines network (ah, how we love typing that) have voted to strike because TfL can’t guarantee the price of PPP’s failure won’t be
KCL Staff To Vote On Strike Over Jobs
It’s been a tumultuous week at King’s College London. Not only have students been vigorously protesting the planned staff cuts, but now the BBC reports that staff have been balloted for strike regarding the 205 planned job losses. Although the college has reached no final …
Sunday Strike Called Off
The RMT have called off tomorrow’s planned 24 hour strike, which would have affected all the old Metronet lines (in other words, everything bar the Northern, Piccadilly and Jubilee lines). After walking out on the 5th over a dispute about working rosters, Bob Crow said …
Extra, Extra
London’s schools aren’t really doing very well. LU. RMT. Strike. Same old. Motorcyclist of Westminster? It’ll cost you £1 a day to park there from the end of this month. You’ll be glad to know that the Olympic Park is safe from, um, 40mph sewage …
Monday Miscellanea
Image by McTumshie, showing a display at the London Transport Museum Londonist last week in numbers and the pictures these numbers translate into… 20,000 or twice that forming The Wave that hit parliament to mark the start of that thing taking place in Copenhagen 28 …
Disruption Continues On Thameslink Rail Route
Image by mattbuck4950 under a Creative Commons licence The fragile state of our railways is on show again, as the Thameslink route between Bedford and Brighton (with the loop through Wimbledon) suffers a third day of disruption after drivers started a work-to-rule over pay. Like …
