{"id":121981,"date":"2025-09-08T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121981\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:55:11","slug":"london-underground-strikes-disrupt-subway-system-for-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121981\/","title":{"rendered":"London Underground strikes disrupt subway system for millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Thousands of <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" 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>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>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>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>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>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 (AP) \u2014 Thousands of London Underground staff on Sunday began a series of strikes over pay and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,58071,59,232,14987,58069,58070,14751,1217,56,54,55,231],"class_list":["post-121981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-compensation-and-benefits","tag-gb","tag-general-news","tag-international-news","tag-labor-unions","tag-mass-transit","tag-sadiq-khan","tag-transportation","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}