Fresh Tube strikes will hit London from Wednesday as drivers will stage a walkout for 24 hours in a dispute over “forced displacement” of staff.
Tube workers on the Central and Waterloo & City lines have announced plans for a 24-hour strike. RMT Union members who work on both lines will walk out for 24 hours at 9pm on Wednesday.
If the strike goes ahead, there will be no Central line service east of Leytonstone and a reduced service running on the rest of the Central line all day on Thursday, while the Waterloo & City line will not run at all.
A special bus shuttle service has been arranged to operate between Epping and Chingford.
The London Underground network had come to a grinding halt after a 24-hour strike by station and ticket staff involved in a separate dispute earlier this month.
Members of the RMT union and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association walked out for 24 hours on the evening of January 8.
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.”
Peter McNaught, operations director for the Central line, said: “We apologise to customers for the disruption they may experience due to this unnecessary strike. We have made all reasonable efforts to resolve this dispute with the RMT through talking through the issues with them, and we have minimised the number of employees affected from 30 to eight.”
