The first of a series of 24-hour strikes by London Underground drivers ended at noon on Wednesday, but further walkouts are planned in the coming months.<\/p>\n
The strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) crippled services again on Wednesday morning, causing travel disruption for commuters and visitors.<\/p>\n
Another 24-hour strike will start at 12 noon on Thursday, disrupting services for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n
Transport for London (TfL) continued to urge passengers to check before they travel.<\/p>\n
The union, which is in dispute over changes to the working week, is planning four more 24-hour strikes in May and June unless the row is resolved.<\/p>\n
Pubs and restaurants in London fear that this week\u2019s strikes will have a big impact on their business.<\/p>\n
RMT official Jared Wood said union members felt strongly about the issues at the heart of the dispute.<\/p>\n
He told the Press Association the row was not just about a four-day week, saying other issues were involved such as the length of shifts and changes to annual leave.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cTfL need to come forward with changes to their proposals for this dispute to be resolved.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is absolute unanimity among our members that we have to fight these proposals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first of a series of 24-hour strikes by London Underground drivers ended at noon on Wednesday, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[187698,84,187696,187697,64584,59,187694,187695,26851,93505,159795,179908,23880,62029,56,54,55,115793,187693],"class_list":{"0":"post-544909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bakerloo-line","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-central-line","11":"tag-circle-line","12":"tag-district-line","13":"tag-gb","14":"tag-hammersmith-and-city-line","15":"tag-jubilee-line","16":"tag-london-underground","17":"tag-metropolitan-line","18":"tag-northern-line","19":"tag-piccadilly-line","20":"tag-transport-for-london","21":"tag-tube-strike","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom","25":"tag-victoria-line","26":"tag-waterloo-city-line"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544909","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=544909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}