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Tube workers launch series of strikes as second union ballots for action
A sign for the London Underground seen through the closed shutters at Euston station, central London, November 10, 2022

TUBE workers began a series of strikes today as a second union said that it will ballot members after rejecting a pay offer.

RMT union engineers walked out in protest at a 5 per cent pay offer after talks this week failed to resolve the dispute.

General secretary Mick Lynch said that Tube workers were not going to accept poor offers and the “continual undermining of conditions.”

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