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| Tube strikes cancelled: Four days of London Underground staff walkouts called off, say RMT union | Tube strikes cancelled: Four days of London Underground staff walkouts called off, say RMT union |
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| Four days of strikes affecting London's Underground network have been called off, it has been announced. | Four days of strikes affecting London's Underground network have been called off, it has been announced. |
| A proposed walk-out by more than 3,000 station staff - members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) union - in protest over job cuts had threatened to grind the tube network to a standstill. | |
| Strikes had been due to take place on for various lengths of time - including during peak periods - starting on Sunday evening across most of Zone 1, prompting outrage among commuters. | |
| But after an emergency meeting held by the RMT on Friday morning, it was decided the strike would be called off, the latest twist in a long -unning and often bitter dispute between the union and London Underground management. | |
| General secretary Mike Cash said the union had received assurances that nearly 60 per cent of jobs, previously cut, would be reinstated. | |
| Another union had previously called off strikes after also reaching an agreement with Tube bosses. |