{"id":542408,"date":"2026-04-21T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:02:08","slug":"london-underground-strikes-to-begin-at-midday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542408\/","title":{"rendered":"London Underground strikes to begin at midday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Underground services are set to be face significant disruption as the first of two 24-hour strikes by some Tube drivers begins at midday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, which represents roughly half of drivers on the Tube network, are striking over a Transport for London&#8217;s (TfL) voluntary proposal to allow train operators to move to a compressed four-day week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RMT said the working day would be too long under the plans, risking driver fatigue and compromising safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TfL said the industrial action was &#8220;completely unnecessary&#8221; while Aslef, another Tube driver union, supports the deal as &#8220;exactly the sort every trade union should be trying to achieve&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London Underground services are set to be face significant disruption as the first of two 24-hour strikes by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-542408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542408","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=542408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}