Virtually no tube services in London as strike continues

London Underground lines were suspended on Monday as workers went on strike, causing travel disruption for commuters.

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00:00Yay! Solidarity!

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00:11Tube strikes this week have left London with virtually no underground services.

00:18The strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union began on Sunday

00:26and is part of a dispute over pay and working conditions.

00:30TfL has offered a 3.4% pay rise, which it described as fair,

00:35and said it cannot afford to meet the union's other demand, which is for a cut in the working week.

00:43Nick Dent, London Underground's Director of Customer Operations, said union demands for a cut in the 35-hour week

00:54were simply unaffordable and would cost hundreds of millions of pounds.

01:01Just to give you an idea of the scale of this strike, the last tube-wide strike was three years ago over pay and pensions.

01:11Mr Dent added that this week's action will be different because separate groups of workers are walking out on different days.

01:21The RMT spokesperson said that they were not going on strike to disrupt small businesses or the public,

01:29but added this strike is going ahead because of the intransigent approach of TfL management

01:38and their refusal to even consider a small reduction in the working week.

01:44The RMT mailbox should be considered a huge increase in commerce that may estimating its group throughout the year.

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