Train and tube strikes to cause major disruption in London over Easter holidays

Travel plans in London could be scuppered over Easter, with strikes affecting the capital.

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00:00 Travel plans in London could be scuppered over Easter with strikes affecting the capital.

00:10 A union has announced a wave of industrial action set to both disrupt the national railway

00:15 network and London Underground over the holidays.

00:20 Aslef announced tube drivers are set to walk out over two days for April 8th and May 4th

00:27 on Wednesday morning the 20th of March.

00:30 In a shock announcement later that day, it also revealed that drivers of 16 train companies

00:35 will be taking one-day rolling walkouts from April 5th to the 8th.

00:42 Finn Brennan, a representative of the union, said on Wednesday that Aslef tube train drivers

00:47 will strike in April and May in a long-running dispute over London Underground's failure

00:52 to give assurances that changes to members' terms and conditions will not be imposed without

00:58 agreement and that all existing agreements will be honoured.

01:04 The new Aslef strike comes just two and a half months after Sadiq Khan used £30m raised

01:09 by the taxpayer to avert a week of walkouts by RMT union members, who represent around

01:15 10,000 tube staff.

01:19 But the action doesn't stop there. About 60 Croydon Thameslink engineers are expected

01:24 to go on strike in a row with TfL over pay too, starting from March 24th.

01:31 The London business group Business London said it was hugely frustrating for Londoners,

01:35 visitors and businesses that the capital would grind to a halt again due to industrial action.

01:45 For more on this and other news from across the capital, head to Londonworld.com

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