{"id":312279,"date":"2025-09-08T15:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=312279"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:22:45","slug":"312279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=312279","title":{"rendered":"Millions brace for London Underground workers&#8217; strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/assets.nst.com.my\/images\/articles\/BRITAIN-TRANSPORT-STRIKE_1757291372.jpg\" alt=\"  An information board warns commuters and rail users of the impact to London Underground services during a planned strike action by members of the Railway workers' union RMT, at Victoria Station in London on Saturday. London could be hit by a week-long strike on its underground railway the Tube, after unions and management failed to reach a pay deal. \u2014 AFP\"\/><figcaption>An information board warns commuters and rail users of the impact to London Underground services during a planned strike action by members of the Railway workers&#8217; union RMT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, Sept 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Millions in London are braced for a week of transport chaos as London Underground workers began a five-day strike on Sunday, shutting stations and threatening to paralyse the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several lines on the network were already at a standstill by Sunday evening, and Transport for London (TfL), which manages the system, said there would be little or no service between Monday and Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RMT trade union called the strike on the Tube \u2014 which carries up to five million passengers a day \u2014 as they battle to secure better pay and conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drivers will go out on strike along with signalling and maintenance workers after having rejected TfL&#8217;s proposal for a 3.4 per cent pay rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concert organisers were forced to postpone two shows by American singer Post Malone, scheduled for Sunday and Monday at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Without a Tube service, it&#8217;s impossible to get people to the concert and home again safely,&#8221; Live Nation UK posted on X. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Sept 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Millions in London are braced for a week of transport chaos as London Underground workers began a five-day strike on Sunday, shutting stations and threatening to paralyse the system. Several lines on the network were already at a standstill by Sunday evening, and Transport for London (TfL), which manages the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312281,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312279\/revisions\/312281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}