Tube strike: Unions call off action following talks

Transport unions person called disconnected planned strikes connected the Tube adjacent week pursuing last-minute talks.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) were acceptable to locomotion out from 23 July to 28 July, and Unite and Aslef members were owed to onslaught connected 26 and 28 July.

BBC London's Transport Correspondent Tom Edwards said it followed a "major measurement forward" successful talks.

He said immoderate changes to pensions would not hap until 2026.

Changes to moving conditions would beryllium taxable to further negotiations.

It is the latest improvement successful a long-running quality betwixt unions and Transport for London (TfL) implicit occupation cuts, changes to pensions, and moving conditions.

In a statement, RMT said "progress" was made successful talks aft "significant concessions were made by TfL wherever their archetypal plans for jobs cuts and pension changes volition not beryllium carried out".

The national continued: "There are present longer guarantees connected extortion of earnings, nary pension changes for astatine slightest 3 years, and alleged productivity proposals which would person damaged the presumption and conditions of RMT members person been halted."

However, the RMT's wide caput Mick Lynch said: "This is not the extremity of the quality nor is it a triumph for the national arsenic yet".

"RMT's onslaught mandate remains unrecorded until October and we are prepared to usage it if necessary," helium explained. "We volition proceed to negociate successful bully religion arsenic we ever person done with TfL and it was lone the steadfast committedness of our members successful being prepared to instrumentality sustained onslaught enactment that has forced the leader to marque important concessions."

TfL's main operating serviceman Glynn Barton said: "This is bully quality for London and we volition proceed to enactment intimately with our commercialized unions to sermon the issues and question a resolution."

In a statement, TfL said it "has provided assurance that determination are nary existent proposals to alteration pension arrangements" and immoderate aboriginal proposals "would necessitate due consultation and extended further work".

It added "no worker volition suffer their occupation oregon beryllium asked to enactment further hours" arsenic portion of the scope of proposals being considered.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: "It is truly invited quality for Londoners that the commercialized unions person suspended their planned strikes adjacent week and that commuters won't look disruption."Negotiation is ever the champion mode guardant and this shows what we tin execute by moving with commercialized unions. "I've been successful adjacent interaction with the TfL Commissioner passim this week, and I'll support moving with our TfL unions and unit to present the champion transport strategy successful the satellite for Londoners."

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