Tube stations were closed and other forms of transport were packed, even though Transport for London put on 200 extra buses.
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RAIL workers took to the picket lines as part of the 24 hour strike action across London.
“The company also need to remember that we remain in dispute with them over the parallel issue of 850 station staff jobs losses – job losses that would make a mockery of delivering passenger and staff safety on the night tube”.
The traveller tweeted: “Absolute carnage on 113 bus”. “It’s extraordinary the union leadership have not put this offer back to their members”.
“If the unions are serious about resolving this, we trust they will be ready to engage in meaningful talks to deliver night Tube for London”. “No-one is being asked to work more hours than they do now when we bring in the Night Tube”.
Nearly 20,000 staff of the rail network known as the “Tube”, belonging to four different unions, are due to leave their posts in a dispute over pay and plans to run an all-night service on weekends from September. Talks are set to resume tomorrow.
He said: “These things are only sorted out around a table, – not by inflicting misery on hard-working Londoners”.
“It is time to end the blame game and agree a solution which keeps London moving”.
Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn yesterday tabled a Commons motion condemning the “disgraceful” treatment of Tube workers and calling on London Mayor Boris Johnson to withdraw compulsory night working.
He said: “Obviously I very much apologise for all the delay, all the destruction”.
“However, where the employee can not get to work and the business has been forced to close, the employer should generally maintain full payment of the employee because he is unable to provide work for that day, unless any contractual lay-off provisions are invoked”.
“It’s been very busy, particularly on the bus and road networks, although many people are travelling outside peak hours and walking and cycling”.
The MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip said the action was a “show of strength” from the unions, but that “we will get on with the Night Tube which is what London needs, it will be a massive boost for the economy”.
“All we have heard is a series of speeches from trade union leaders, condemning us for communicating with our staff”.
“It is the directors, and those above them, who simply do not believe that their staff have a right to a reasonable quality of life”.
“Unfortunately what has happened is that the union leadership has basically been spoiling for a big fight on this”.
“I’m going to hide away in the coffee shop down the road and work on a few design ideas”.
“When you’re living in London that long, you just have to learn to live with it”, said Thumwood, a 64-year-old systems consultant who works in the center of London. The workers have been offered “honest” and “fair” pay for the work hours, hopefully they can come to an agreement shortly.
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EPA Commuters board a train at Westminster Station in London.
