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Title: Tube strikes throughout August.....
Post by: TaplowGreen on August 02, 2021, 12:17:33
Well, it's been a while I guess.....

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tube-strike-london-drivers-union-underground-b948739.html


Title: Re: Tube strikes throughout August.....
Post by: Timmer on August 02, 2021, 17:26:15
Good news, this week’s strike action has been suspended:
https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-suspends-tube-strike-action/

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RMT suspends Tube strike action this week to allow for further talks.

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said:

"Following extensive and wide ranging discussions through the ACAS machinery we have hammered out enough ground to allow those talks to continue. As a result this week's strike action is suspended although the rest of the planned action rema‎ins on.

"I want to thank our members and our reps whose unity and determination has allowed us to reach this stage today and we look forward to pursuing the important issues at the heart of this dispute in the next phase of talks. "


Title: Re: Tube strikes throughout August.....
Post by: TaplowGreen on August 02, 2021, 18:08:30
That is good news.......those RMT sabres must have got rusty for lack of rattling!


Title: Re: Tube strikes throughout August.....
Post by: broadgage on August 03, 2021, 19:59:48
Each threatened strike will slightly increase calls for ATO.
Each actual strike will significantly increase calls for ATO.

Remember the London docks and the endless strikes therein ? And the result was the closure of traditional docks and the move to non union, cantainerised ports out of London.

And the coal industry strikes, and what happened to UK coal mining ?



Title: Re: Tube strikes throughout August.....
Post by: ellendune on August 03, 2021, 20:39:51
Remember the London docks and the endless strikes therein ? And the result was the closure of traditional docks and the move to non union, cantainerised ports out of London.

I am not sure that was cause and effect.  The move to containerisation and larger ships was already happening due to costs regardless of the strike. The change was IMHO inevitable. 


Title: Re: Tube strikes throughout August.....
Post by: Electric train on August 04, 2021, 09:34:04


Remember the London docks and the endless strikes therein ? And the result was the closure of traditional docks and the move to non union, cantainerised ports out of London.



Should not really put the RMT and the Dockworks Union in the same statement, the RMT maid up of the National Union of Railwaymen and the National Union of Seamen both the NUR and NUS were at odds with Dockworkers Union the DWU accusing both the NUR and NUS of taking dockers work away.   The 'Inland Bonded Port' at Milton (Didcot) was planned as were others which the NUR and NUS supported but the DWU opposed, these inland ports were designed to take container traffic direct into the centre of mainland UK where they were Customs cleared.


Title: Re: Tube strikes throughout August.....
Post by: TaplowGreen on August 23, 2021, 07:47:27
This week's scheduled strikes "suspended" too.......


https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/tube-strike-suspended/



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