Tube Lines Strike
21 October 2015 If you are taking Piccadilly Line to Heathrow airport now is the time to change your plans. Train drivers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action. No date set yet. Try Heathrow Express instead. Pricey.
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Old industrial actions from 2012
Emergency Response unit, will stop work at 16:00hrs on Tuesday 24 April 2012 and return to work for shifts starting after 16:00hrs on Friday 27 April 2012.
Piccadilly Line goes to Heathrow Airport terminals.
London City Airport maybe involved.
Who else is on strike today?
What's your airline up to?
National Express will drop you off, right at your terminal.
Meetings planned for Thursday.
17 April 2012 Strike dates and times are in.
Tubelines strike starts 4 PM Tuesday 24 April till
Friday 27 April. No maintenance will be done on Jubilee line, Piccadilly and Northern lines. How long do you think system will run without a failure? Hour of two? If traveling to Gatwick, Heathrow and London City airports have a plan B. Tfl will have a contingency plan, they've certainly been given enough time to plan ahead. Fingers crossed all parties will get act together before this debacle is to start.
Expect a lot more traffic on the road, less taxi's available. Perhaps buy your train ticket on Heathrow Express and Gatwick Express NOW.
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14 March 2012 Tube union RMT today it's balloting workers on Tube Lines. Results due in 16 April.
Ballot papers will be sent out to RMT members at Tube Lines, including ex-Alstom Stratford Market depot staff, on the 20th March with the ballot closing on the 16th April. RMT is calling for a massive yes vote for industrial action to back the union’s demand for equal pension and travel-pass rights.
Tube Lines staff are responsible for both maintenance and upgrade work on the Jubilee line, Northern line and Piccadilly line. They also provide a number of services across the network including the Emergency Response Unit (ERU), Distribution Services and Trans Plant.
The union is demanding that all Tube Lines staff, including ex-Alstom staff at Stratford Market depot, be allowed to join the TfL Pension Scheme and receive the same travel concessions as those who work for LUL, including former Metronet staff.
Parity would bring Tube Lines staff free travel within London and 75 per cent of the cost of travel on the mainline railway – the concession that all Tube staff, including ex-Metronet people, already get.
The RMT executive endorsed the ballot following a unanimous call for action by workplace reps when they met in February following several months of stonewalling by Tube Lines bosses. The ballot will be for both strike action and action short of a strike.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said:
“This is a straightforward demand for parity with other Tube staff,”
“We have gone through all the negotiating channels on both these issues but Tube Lines has refused to budge.
“Former Metronet employees have been allowed back into the TfL Pension Fund (TfLPF) and now also have the same travel facilities as other LUL employees.
“Tube Lines is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London and there is simply no excuse for refusing to give equal pension and pass rights.
“The union remains ready to talk, and a strong mandate for industrial action will show Tube Lines and TfL the depth of anger there is over this blatant lack of fairness.”
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