Tube strike

More negotiating progress was made in the seven hours leading up to June’s two-day strike on London Underground than in the previous nine months, according to Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT rail union.

But the union said that agreements reached on how to deal with pay, disciplinary and sickness issues and compulsory redundancy were pulled at the last minute in a “disgraceful” management sting. Union figures show that during the action that followed, LUL was only able to provide a skeleton service.