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London Underground workers to strike in new year
Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), joins union members on the picket line outside Euston station in London during a rail strike in a long-running dispute over jobs and pensions, March 16, 2023

LONDON Underground workers will stage a series of strikes in the new year in a dispute over wages, their union RMT said today.

Members of the union have voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action after rejecting a 5 per cent pay offer.

Engineering and maintenance workers will be taking action over January 5 and 6, with no rest-day working or overtime until January 12.

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