Overview
- The Rail, Maritime and Transport union has scheduled 24-hour walkouts for Tuesday and Thursday that run from midnight to 23:59 and are set to hit the morning rush hard.
- The dispute is over a proposed voluntary four-day working week that would compress roughly 35 hours into four days while the RMT is pushing for a 32-hour four-day pattern and has raised safety and fatigue concerns.
- ASLEF has accepted TfL’s proposal so many drivers would still work during any RMT action, but Transport for London says the Piccadilly and Circle lines will not run and sections of the Metropolitan and Central lines will be suspended on strike days.
- TfL has published a reduced-service plan with later starts and earlier finishes, urged the RMT to call off the strikes, and is taking part in Acas-led talks that will determine whether the action goes ahead.
- Passengers should expect much busier alternatives such as the Elizabeth line, Overground, DLR and buses, longer journeys and knock-on disruption and the dispute continues a pattern of repeated London transport strikes over rosters and fatigue earlier this year.