"Thousands of Tube staff are to carry out the network's biggest strike for three years, with the worst of the disruption expected Monday to Thursday."
""Our members are feeling the strain of extreme shift patterns, giving rise to potential health problems due to fatigue," an RMT spokesperson said in an emailed statement to AFP."
"Drivers, signallers and maintenance workers are demanding a cut to their 35-hour week, on top of a pay rise totalling 3.4 percent."
London's underground railway faces a week-long strike beginning Friday after unions and management failed to reach a pay and working-hours deal. Thousands of Tube staff will stage the largest walkout in three years, with the worst disruption expected Monday to Thursday. Many office workers continue hybrid patterns post-Covid, but the strike will still add pressure to businesses, particularly restaurants and pubs. The RMT threatened the walkout on August 21 and talks with Transport for London have not averted the action. Staff demand a cut to the 35-hour week plus a 3.4 percent pay rise, which TfL calls unaffordable.
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