London: Millions of Londoners struggled to work today as a strike by underground rail staff brought the network to a standstill for the second time in a month over plans for a new night-time service.
Travel chaos was feared across the British capital as commuters turned to cars, boats, bicycles and packed buses with the 24-hour walkout by rail unions meaning no trains were running on the network which handles some four million journeys a day.
The action follows a long dispute over the planned introduction of some 24-hour services at weekends on the "Tube", as the world's oldest underground passenger railway is known, which are due to be launched on September 12.
Nick Brown, the managing director of London Underground, said their offer to unions included an above-inflation 2 percent pay rise, a one-off payment of 500 pounds and a promise that drivers would have the same number of weekends off.
"We listened to their concerns over work-life balance and put forward an extremely fair, revised offer," Brown said.
"The Night Tube plan has been botched from the off," RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said.
Travel chaos was feared across the British capital as commuters turned to cars, boats, bicycles and packed buses with the 24-hour walkout by rail unions meaning no trains were running on the network which handles some four million journeys a day.
The action follows a long dispute over the planned introduction of some 24-hour services at weekends on the "Tube", as the world's oldest underground passenger railway is known, which are due to be launched on September 12.
Nick Brown, the managing director of London Underground, said their offer to unions included an above-inflation 2 percent pay rise, a one-off payment of 500 pounds and a promise that drivers would have the same number of weekends off.
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"We listened to their concerns over work-life balance and put forward an extremely fair, revised offer," Brown said.
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"The Night Tube plan has been botched from the off," RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said.
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