Unions to announce Tube vote result

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More than 2,500 workers at Metronet, the consortium that went into administration last month, have been voting on whether to take industrial action in a row over jobs and conditions.

The Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) are campaigning to win guarantees that there will be no job losses, forced transfers or cuts in pensions as a result of the financial collapse of the consortium.

Union leaders are confident of substantial support for industrial action.

RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "We warned from the start that we would not allow our members' jobs and conditions to be decimated by Metronet's death throes.

"It is unacceptable that our members face losing 10% of their pensions because Metronet's fat cat shareholders decided to pull the plug.

"London urgently needs its Tube upgrades. It is our unions' members who will deliver them and the only sensible solution is to bring the work back in-house."

A spokesman for Transport for London said: "This vote for strike action is completely unnecessary. It is particularly unreasonable at a time when administrators are working to ensure the stability of Metronet following the company's collapse.

"There are agreed channels for discussion on these issues and the unions should use them rather than call for strike action.

"We urge the RMT and TSSA to withdraw their threat of strike action and work with Metronet's administrators to enable them to get the company on a stable footing and out of administration as soon as possible."