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| Tube strike: Two more London Underground walkouts announced | Tube strike: Two more London Underground walkouts announced |
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| London Underground workers will stage two further strikes in the dispute over night Tube plans, the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said. | |
| The 24-hour walkouts will begin at 18:30 BST on Tuesday 25 August and at 18:30 on Thursday 27 August. | The 24-hour walkouts will begin at 18:30 BST on Tuesday 25 August and at 18:30 on Thursday 27 August. |
| The union said the strikes are over work-life balance and job cuts when the all-night tube is introduced in September. | The union said the strikes are over work-life balance and job cuts when the all-night tube is introduced in September. |
| Station staff will strike from 18:30 each day and drivers from 21:00. | Station staff will strike from 18:30 each day and drivers from 21:00. |
| The action follows two earlier strikes, on 6 August and on 8 July. | |
| 'Rosters from hell' | |
| The RMT union has more than 80,000 members in total. Three other unions, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, Unite and Aslef are yet to decide on the action they will take. | |
| General secretary at the RMT Mick Cash said the union's members didn't want to be "forced to wreck their home lives in order to comply with the rosters from hell". | |
| He said Tube staff were angry London Mayor Boris Johnson had "ignored" their issues. | |
| Mr Cash added: "The basics haven't been done and those who will pay for this shambles will not only be our members but the London daily travelling public who cough up a fortune and who will find their safety and the reliability of the service compromised from 12 September onwards. | |
| "Running tube services with fatigued and burnt-out staff is a recipe for disaster." |