TfL Tube strike: Jubilee Line chaos for commuters as two 24-hour walk-outs set to go ahead in timetable row

Chloe Chaplain4 June 2018

Tube workers on the Jubilee Line are to go ahead with two 24-hour strikes in a row over a new timetable after talks broke down.

Drivers on the Jubilee line who are members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will walk out on Wednesday and again on June 14.

Transport bosses said the busy line would be running an extremely limited service, causing delays for thousands of commuters.

There is also a walk-out planned on the District Line over a row about a driver who was redistributed following safety incidents.

The RMT said it was “bitterly disappointed” that the talks had not resolved the issue and said it made every effort to try and reach agreement with Transport for London.

Row: The dispute is over timetable changes
Jeremy Selwyn

TfL said the timetable changes "will benefit thousands" and deemed the industrial action “completely unnecessary”.

Drivers union Aslef – also involved in the strike – said the new timetables would increase the number of Saturdays drivers have to work, breaking a previous arrangement agreed by the company and unions in 2015.

And RMT general secretary Mick Cash said Tube managers were “trying to bulldoze through timetable changes without agreement that ride roughshod over existing rostering agreements”.

Tube Strike: 22nd February 2017

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"Drivers are angry at the impact on work-life balance and rightly see this move as the thin end of a very long wedge that could see processes and agreements unilaterally shredded by Tube bosses," he said.

"RMT is bitterly disappointed that Tube managers have knocked back an opportunity to negotiate a settlement to this dispute in extensive talks that broke up on Friday. They failed to put a single proposal forward.”

Nigel Holness, London Underground's director of network operations, previously said the changes would increase peak-time service from 30 minutes to two hours and said they would not breach rostering agreements.

The TfL website warned that there will be “very limited or no service” running on the Jubilee Line on Wednesday and possibly into Thursday morning.

Customers are advised to seek alternative travel
Alex Lentati

The District line is likely to have minor delays as drivers from the Acton Town depot only are striking.

Some Metropolitan line services that normally terminate at Baker Street will also additionally at Willesden Green and Bakerloo and Metropolitan lines in north-west London are expected to be extremely busy, TfL said.

The statement added: “Please allow extra time and replan your journey if possible. Please use alternative nearby Tube lines, local buses, rail services, river buses or consider cycling and/or walking.”

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