00:00The RMT union said new working arrangements are being imposed, including a four-day week.
00:06The union says that under these plans, drivers face increased time spent driving trains, longer duties, earlier starts and later
00:15finishes.
00:16The 24-hour strikes will begin at noon on the 26th of November, 17th and 19th of December, the 4th
00:26and 6th of January and the 17th, 23rd and 25th of February.
00:32RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey claimed that London Underground is attempting to dress up a quote-unquote wholesale attack on
00:43drivers' working conditions as a voluntary four-day week.
00:48He added that there was nothing voluntary about a scheme that quote-unquote forces drivers to give up existing protections,
00:57whether they work four days or five.
00:59Finn Brennan, ASLEF's full-time organiser on the London Underground, said they are surprised that the RMT has once again
01:10decided to take strike action to try to prevent underground drivers moving to a four-day week on a voluntary
01:18basis.
01:19He added management have agreed that anyone who wants to keep working a five-day week will be able to
01:25do so without suffering any detriment.
01:29See you next time.
