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Tube strike called off at last minute
Dick Murray, Transport Editor19.08.08
The Tube strike was dramatically called off late this afternoon.
Union bosses were set to finalise the deal tonight after Tube Lines offered small improvements to pay and working conditions.
RMT negotiators were recommending acceptance pending further negotiations.
It was a climb-down by Tube Lines who had previously insisted the "final deal" was already on the table.
A 72-hour strike, due to begin at Noon tomorrow and spread over four days, would have crippled services on the Northern, Jubilee and Piccadilly lines and lost the national economy around £50 million.
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Well done Bob Crow and the RMT. It's good to see that somebody still sticks up for the low paid workers in this country, after they were abandoned by New Labour.
- Mick, London, England
Another example of the final bastion of dinosaurs the RMT and their leader Bob Crow, exercising the mindset of thuggery so evident before so many of his kind were eradicated.
Soon, this lot will hopefully go the same way.
- John, Peterborough, England
This is crazy! We ban the police from striking, yet these people are consistently demonstrating their willingness to hold the city to ransom. They have great pay already and it's hardly rocket science (much as the tube system is amazing and complex)! The are slow, and unfriendly in the main (most ticket barrier staff exempt from this comment). We should have a commuter strike demanding theirs and their bosses take a pay cut for the ongoing surliness, crappy days when not enough staff turn up to work and their exasperating inability to keep the signals working properly! Pathetic bunch they are! London commuters should all drive in and clog the city for a day to show their contempt Flip side, lie down and take it like the pathetic dogs we are! Hmmmm...
- London W9, London W9
