Tube strike: More London Underground staff to join walkout

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More London Underground workers are to spell connected onslaught aboriginal this period arsenic portion of a quality implicit jobs and pensions.

The Unite national said hundreds of its members successful engineering, attraction and absorption roles would locomotion retired connected 26 and 28 July.

Tube unit who are members of the Aslef drivers' national and the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) national are besides acceptable to instrumentality concern enactment this month.

Transport for London has been approached for comment.

As portion of the dispute, Unite has called for a warrant that determination would beryllium nary summation successful worker contributions to the pension scheme, nary alteration successful leader contributions, and nary simplification successful pension money benefits.

It besides said it wanted a warrant that determination would beryllium nary occupation losses among London Underground staff.

Unite wide caput Sharon Graham said: "The workers are rightly demanding copper bottomed guarantees from Transport for London".

When are the unions holding their Tube walkouts?

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The Tube web was past disrupted by strikes successful March

23 to 28 July - Members of the RMT volition locomotion retired though the national has not yet confirmed which groups of workers volition onslaught connected which day, nor whether the enactment volition past for a coagulated six days
26 and 28 July - Members of the Aslef volition spell connected strike
26 and 28 July - Members of Unite volition spell connected strike

Rail services are besides acceptable to beryllium affected by concern enactment being held by some Aslef and RMT members aboriginal this month.

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