{"id":9921,"date":"2025-09-08T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9921\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:56:08","slug":"millions-brace-for-week-of-transport-chaos-as-london-underground-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9921\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions brace for week of transport chaos as London Underground workers\u2019 strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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London Underground workers began a five-day strike today. The Tube carries up to five million passengers a day. Photo \/ Unsplash<\/p>\n

Millions of people in London are braced for a week of transport chaos as London Underground workers began a five-day strike today, shutting stations and threatening to paralyse the system.<\/p>\n

\n Several lines on the network were already at a standstill and Transport for London (TfL), which manages the system,
\n said there would be little or no service for the rest of the working week.\n <\/p>\n

The RMT trade union called the strike on the Tube – which carries up to five million passengers a day – as they battle to secure better pay and conditions.<\/p>\n

Drivers will go out on strike along with signalling and maintenance workers after having rejected TfL\u2019s proposal for a 3.4% pay rise.<\/p>\n

The workers are also demanding a reduction in their hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 7 Sep, 2025 09:45 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[806,11164,12412,12415,138,12413,12416,2082,1619,4380,111,139,69,1118,12420,384,12417,12418,4485,6211,12419,1865,112,12414,686,4478],"class_list":["post-9921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-as","tag-began","tag-brace","tag-braced","tag-business","tag-chaos","tag-fiveday","tag-for","tag-london","tag-millions","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-paralyse","tag-people","tag-shutting","tag-stations","tag-strike","tag-system","tag-threatening","tag-today","tag-transport","tag-underground","tag-week","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}