{"id":972,"date":"2025-09-07T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/972\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:17:09","slug":"london-subway-system-grinding-to-a-halt-as-underground-staff-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/972\/","title":{"rendered":"London subway system grinding to a halt as Underground staff go on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONDON &#8212; Thousands of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-pandemics-race-and-ethnicity-coronavirus-pandemic-london-35dab1435cf3cee0446e7ad76b38d310\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London Underground<\/a> staff on Sunday began a series of strikes over pay and conditions that threaten to shut down the subway system used by millions of people a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union said its members, including drivers, signalers and maintenance workers, will walk out at various times through Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Transit operator Transport for London said services were severely disrupted on Sunday and there are expected to be few or no trains running Monday through Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The company says it has offered staff a 3.4% pay increase, but the union is holding out for a reduction in the working week from 35 hours to 32 hours. TfL says it can\u2019t afford that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The union argues that the number of people working on the Underground has been cut by 2,000 since 2018, \u201cand our members are feeling the strain of extreme shift patterns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">No talks between union and management are currently planned, and the union called on Mayor Sadiq Khan to intervene to end the dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON &#8212; Thousands of London Underground staff on Sunday began a series of strikes over pay and conditions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1512,127,114,1508,122,85,46,1509,1511,1510,126],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-1512","tag-article","tag-business","tag-compensation-and-benefits","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-labor-unions","tag-mass-transit","tag-transportation","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}