BREAKING: London Underground workers on the Bakerloo line have announced that they will stage two strikes next month in a dispute over safety. The ‘flash and dash' walk-outs are set for: 🚂 February 4th 🚂 February 11th
The union is in dispute over a plan it claims would allow trains to go into sidings and depots without a check to ensure that passengers have left the train.Union chiefs warned that passengers would have to depend on hearing unreliable PA announcements on 50-year-old trains to avoid being taken unwittingly into depots and sidings.
Currently, trains are physically checked to make sure they are empty and it is safe for the driver to proceed, but the union said management want to remove this safety check as part of a cost-cutting plan. Finn Brennan, Aslef’s organiser on the Underground, said: ‘This puts both passengers and staff at risk.
‘Previous experience had shown that removing physical checks means that thousands of passengers are unwittingly taken into sidings or depots.‘We understand the pressure that London Underground is under to cut costs, but this cannot be at the expense of the safety of passengers and staff.’ Aslef members will now refuse to take trains into sidings or depots without safety checks and will strike on the first two Saturdays in February.
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