Tube workers to hold six strikes
Updated on 30 January 2009
Workers who fix power supply faults on the London Underground are to stage six strikes over the next month in a row over pay.
The Rail Maritime and Transport union said its members at EDF Energy Powerlink will walk out for 12 hours from the evenings of this Sunday, February 4, 11, 15 and 22 and March 1.
The 25 workers have already taken industrial action as part of a campaign for pay parity with colleagues who work day shifts.
RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "This dispute is about nothing more than pay parity with day-work colleagues who received a £3,000 pay rise in exchange for flexibility in signing on and off.
"The workers have delivered flexibility and have seen their work-life balance turned upside down by the change from ten-hour days and 14-hour nights to a 12-hour shift system.
"We are not asking for anything that hasn't already been paid out to others, and we are merely asking the company to right a wrong."
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