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The third in an unwelcome trilogy of Tube strikes begins tonight. Here’s what you need to know: Strikes begin at 7pm, when maintenance workers walk out. Full-on, hardcore strikes begin at 9pm, when other workers join them. Expect around 40% of services to be running, …

London survived another grrrr of 24-hour Tube strikes, with services now back to normal. Both sides are inevitably claiming victory. TfL reckon that 40% of trains were running, while union boss Bob Crow counters that “The first casualty of war is always the truth.” More …

Image / zefrog The ballots are in, and it’s not good news for commuters: 76% of RMT members have voted for industrial action. Sister union the TSSA will announce its own ballot results next week, and the two groups will then plan when to hold …

Showing an admirable zeal to dump all over a project that’s received near-universal approval, the RMT staged a protest outside Whitechapel station this morning on the first full Monday service of the extended East London line. The union is upset that London Overground is under …

Image / zefrog On the Doomsday clock that heralds a December tube strike, we’re just a few minutes before midnight: the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA), which represents ticket office workers and management and is just about the only union still on speaking terms with …

Image author’s own Peter Stringfellow protested it (in his inimicable, awful way), the Proud Galleries protested it (with nipple tassels) and now Equity is applying its considerable union-shaped weight to the battle against it. ‘It’ is the reclassification of burlesque, lap dancing and pole dancing …

For the London launch there was a brass band and Miners Union banners. It’s unlikely if you go you’ll get all that, and that’s a shame, but you might get the photo exhibition and that is all you need. They are pictures from another world …

High jinx at Ponders End. No, it’s not the title of a missing Famous Five episode, but something far more conducive to nostalgia. A brotherly uprising. Sacked workers at the Enfield plant of Ford Visteon have occupied their former place of work, demanding that their …

Up to 9000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union, including security staff at the Houses of Parliament, Police Community Support Officers, Traffic Wardens, 999 Operators and admin support staff will be striking – most pointedly – on Budget Day, 12 March, to protest …

Transport unions to ballot members on Tube strike action London Councils ace performance and efficiency assessments Scottish property market outperforms London; Crown Estate flogs off an historic house or two. Straight to the heart of Gothamist Towers from London City? Sounds good to us. Yah …