05/02/2014 BBC London News


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Good evening. Talks aimed at resolving the Tube dispute are to be

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held on Friday, but the strike will still continue tomorrow meaning more

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disruption for millions of Londoners. The 48`hour walk`out will

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end tomorrow night with another strike planned for next week. Tom

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Edwards reports. A miserable commute home for many

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this evening after an equally miserable trip into work. It is fair

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enough to strike, but it makes things a bit harder. There were

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queues at Baker Street just before seven. No Tube, but the buses were

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already busy. There are twice more people than usual. There were also

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queues at Stanmore. London Underground had promised some

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services. Slowly some services did start to run. This was the Victoria

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line, but 80 stations did not open at all. Everyone was arguing. There

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were a picket lines from the two unions whose members walked out The

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unions claim the system was dangerously overcrowded in places.

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But crowd control measures are in place. At London Bridge some

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commuters wanted tougher action from the Mayor as he met with TfL

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ambassadors. They were staff members volunteering to help. Have you

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oversold the level of service? You had big queues at 7am. We have got

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eight out of 11 lines running and I want to thank very much everybody

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who has turned up. Thank you very much for what you are doing for

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London. I urge everyone else to come and help out. It will be a tough

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day. The unions claimed only a skeleton service was running.

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Everyone in London knows there is a problem with the Mayor not talking

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to trade unions. Everyone in London knows there is a problem regarding

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industrial relations with London Underground. What they should have

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done is dealt with this far differently. Commuters have mixed

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feelings about the strike. There are different ways to sort out a dispute

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and it is down to dialogue and people talking. Talks have not

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progressed in the way they could have done. The roads were much

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busier and there were more cyclists and at my learned buses were full

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and not able to stop. Six buses have passed so far. This was the cue for

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the 139 bus. And on the river the birds were also much busier. They

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started at 6am this morning with the first sailing. The bad news for

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commuters is they will have to face all of this again tomorrow. Tom is

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at Warren Street station. What chance is there of ending this

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dispute at the talks on Friday? There has been movement. ACAS have

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confirmed those jobs will go ahead on Friday. We have been here

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before, the issues are still the same. The RMT union said its

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negotiators are ready to enter exploratory talks. In the meantime,

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the current action continues. In the last 30 minutes Transport for London

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has said, why wait until Friday Meet us tomorrow and suspend the

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strike. I do not think that will happen, but it could be more

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promising for the plant Tube strikes next week. Today the Prime Minister

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condemned the strike and Number Ten has said it is looking closely at

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plans to declare London Underground an essential service to curb the

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threat of future strikes. Karl Mercer has more.

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On a day like today you might expect weary Londoners to have a less than

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charitable view of the union whose action has led to scenes like this.

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But people were taking leaflets from the strikers and plenty had sympathy

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with their cause, if not everyone. We are not against you, but you do

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not strike in today's world. A lot of people are suffering. They should

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be more consultation with the union about employment changes. At Prime

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Minister 's question time there was no sitting on the fence. There is no

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justification for a strike. We need a modernised Tube line working for

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the millions of Londoners who use it every day. Downing Street said this

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was unacceptable and we were told the Prime Minister is looking

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seriously at plans to label the London underground as an essential

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service which in the future would mean they would have to provide a

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minimum level of service. The mass transit system has fallen silent and

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all of this over a dispute over pay and conditions. In New York the

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subway has only had three strikes in its history because strikes are not

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allowed. Tonight, the Business Secretary told BBC London he

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disagreed with changing the law There are many essential services

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and London Tube is one and there are the police, hospitals and others who

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would qualify as an essential service. Changing industrial

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relations law to deal with one particular strike is a bad idea

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Conservative sources said today they were considering a range of options

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that may be included in their next election manifesto.

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Wendy has got the weather and it was not kind to commuters today.

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Not at all. It has at least stopped raining. The winds will be using a

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touch as well, but at the moment they are still quite blustery. It is

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largely dry with clear skies and temperatures between four and six

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degrees. A bright start to tomorrow, with a noticeable breeze. Then it

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will start raining from the south and it probably will not stop for 18

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hours. There is an amber weather warning in Berkshire, Sussex and

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Kent. By the end of Thursday we could have had another two inches of

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rain. After that it clears away and there is an interlude on Friday but

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it turned stormy over the weekend. You can get the latest travel

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information every 15 minutes on your local radio and we will keep you up

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to date on the bulletins in breakfast.

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As you have just heard, the little respite between one storm system and

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another and it is that cumulative effect which will cause further

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problems in the coming days with risks of flooding and further damage

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and destruction. This area

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