00:00More strikes are set to hit London. This time the Met Police staff are set to strike for six more days amid pay disputes.
00:09The last strike took place on New Year's Day and was described as hugely successful and disruptive.
00:16The industrial action is expected to run from the 19th to the 24th of January after a New Year's Eve strike which Unite claimed caused major disruption including delays in call outs.
00:29Keith Henderson Unite Regional Officer described the first strike on New Year's Eve which ran for 25 hours as hugely successful and disruptive.
00:39He said that the force will hugely struggle to cope with several days worth of action but the Met must revise its pay offer to one acceptable to the members to prevent it from happening.
00:52The Met has maintained that it aimed to minimise the impact of the strike by backfilling crucial staff roles with officers but insufficient resources in areas including their 999 call centres and custody suites could put the public at risk.
01:10The union also argued that workers had been proposed an inferior pay rise for 2025 to 2026 despite Met Police officers being given a 4.2% pay rise in September of 2025.
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