RMT union calls off tube strikes planned for November

RMT maintenance staff had been due to strike for 24 hours from tonight (November) with track access controllers and control centre staff set to stage a 24-hour strike on Saturday. Staff at its emergency response unit was expected to stage a 24-hour strike the following day.

However, train drivers’ union Aslef at present is still going ahead with its tube drivers’ strike, due to be held on Thursday next week and the following Tuesday, although it is understood that it will meet with officials for more talks in a bid to stop them.

"Following intense negotiations with London Underground management and a significantly improved offer, we have suspended the strikes scheduled to start this evening,” an RMT spokesperson says.

"London Underground have sensibly abandoned their proposed changes to pay structures which now means all our members will receive the same value in any pay award.

"Further discussions will take place next week regarding the pay offer but progress has been made which would not have been possible without the fortitude and industrial strength of our 10,000 members on London Underground."

UKHospitality had previously said that tube strikes planned for November would have a ‘significant impact’​​ on the sector.