At 6:30pm this evening, London will descend into chaos as the City deals with yet another Tube strike. This time, Transport for London and the RMT trade union are squabbling over the introduction of the Night Tube — services running throughout Fridays and Saturday nights on a few lines. The union isn’t happy about the disruption it will cause to its members’ lives, while TfL feels it has done it utmost to offer a fair deal.
Mick Cash, Bob Crow’s replacement as general secretary of the RMT, said on the Today programme that the strike was about putting ‘more and more work onto less and less people’ but insisted he wasn’t against the Night Tube in principle:
‘No, we’re against imposing change and impacting on the work/life balance of our members and the impact it’s going to have on the people of London.’
Before suggesting the service might not be ‘good news’ for Londoners:
‘Well, that’s an interesting point about whether or not the impact of the Night Tube is going to have a benefit to get a few thousand home on a Friday and Saturday night … I’m not sure.’
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