walked out from 12 noon today <\/a>and services will be affected for a 24-hour period.<\/p>\nTrain drivers will walk out again on Thursday amid the row over a four-day working week for staff.<\/p>\n
Mr Dent said: \u201cThe changes that we are proposing are voluntary. So no driver will need to change their working patterns from a five day week to a four day week unless they wish to do so.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason that we have made this offer in proposing these changes is to respond to questions about work life balance for train operators and the preference from trade unions to have a four day week pattern. That’s something that the RMT have certainly requested in the past. <\/p>\n
“But also this will improve the reliability of our service. It will provide much better outcomes for customers.\u201d<\/p>\n
It comes after the RMT accused TfL of being \u201cunwilling to make any concessions\u201d in talks, leaving the union\u2019s negotiators \u201cbaffled\u201d and union members \u201cinfuriated\u201d.<\/p>\n
The union claims TfL the proposal to condense the working week into four days went against the expressed wishes of most drivers made clear in two separate referendums.<\/p>\n
RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said: \u201cWe have approached negotiations with TfL in good faith throughout this entire process, but despite our best efforts, TfL seem unwilling to make any concessions in a bid to avert strike action.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is extremely disappointing and has baffled our negotiators.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe approach of TfL is not one which leads to industrial peace and will infuriate our members who want to see a negotiated settlement to this avoidable dispute.\u201d<\/p>\n
When is the Tube strike?<\/p>\n
The action will primarily upset the Tube schedule, and the Underground strike will begin from midday on Tuesday, April 21, and this will last until 11.59am on Wednesday, April 23.<\/p>\n
The second day of strike action will be from midday on Thursday, April 23, which will last until 11.59am on Friday, April 24.<\/p>\n
Further ahead, strikes will be held from May 19-20, May 21-22, June 16-17, and June 18-19.In each case, the strikes are held from midday of the first day to 11.59am on the second.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow (Wednesday, April 22), Tube services that do run will start later than normal, with no service expected before 7.30am. <\/p>\n
There will continue to be significant disruption on all lines until midday. By the afternoon and evening, services will be slowly recovering, with some disruption likely until the evening.<\/p>\n
A further 24-hour strike following the same process will then begin on Thursday, lasting into Friday. <\/p>\n
Elizabeth line, DLR, London Overground, and\u00a0tram services\u00a0will be running normally on strike days.<\/p>\n
Some bus routes in the capital operated by Stagecoach will be affected by a separate 24-hour strike from 5am on Friday April 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members are walking out over pay and working conditions – but TfL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-543750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543750","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=543750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"London](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/807750.webp\")
<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/807756.webp\")
<\/p>\n