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Tube strike: Talks to avert London Underground adjourned | |
(about 9 hours later) | |
Talks aimed at averting another strike by London Underground (LU) workers have been adjourned and will resume on Tuesday. | |
RMT and TSSA union officials have spent the day with LU bosses at conciliation service Acas to try to resolve the row over ticket office closures. | |
Union members staged a 48-hour walkout last week, which caused travel chaos across the capital. | Union members staged a 48-hour walkout last week, which caused travel chaos across the capital. |
Another 48-hour strike is planned from 21:00 GMT on Tuesday. | |
'Little progress' | |
John Leach from the RMT union said he thought the chances of the strike being called off were "quite slim". | |
Wayne Geoghegan from the TSSA union said: "The company is moving, in my view, extremely slowly and we're making little progress." | |
London Underground's managing director, Mike Brown said: "I urge the leaders of the RMT and TSSA to work with us to help shape the future of the Tube. | |
"All that another unnecessary strike will achieve is to lose those who take part another two days' pay." | |
Talks are due to resume on Tuesday at 09:00. | |
The network saw major disruption during the walkout from 4 February. | |
Transport for London (TfL) has published a list of what services it hopes to run should the strike go ahead. Trains will run between 07:00 and 23:00, although services will start to wind down at 21:30. | |
A basic service will be in operation on all lines apart from the Waterloo and City Line, however trains will not stop at all stations. | |
Extra bus services will be in operation and the Overground, DLR and trams will run as normal. | |
Commuters are being asked to check @TfLTravelAlerts, @TfLTrafficNews and @TfLBusAlerts. | |
Last week's strike took place over plans to close all Tube ticket offices and cut 960 jobs. | |
On Sunday, RMT leader Bob Crow said LU had to "move its position" to avoid a second strike, claiming a lack of consultation on future Tube plans. | |
TfL has claimed its proposals - which do not involve compulsory redundancies - would save £50m a year. |