London Underground strikes for April and May cancelled

Tube strikes planned for April and May have been called off following two days of “quite intense negotiations”.

Industrial action will no longer be taking place on 8 April and 4 May as previously announced.

In a video uploaded on X, Finn Brennan, ASLEF’s organiser on the London Underground, confirmed: “Following a meeting with our reps, we’re recommending to the executive committee that the strike action planned for next Monday and in May be suspended.

“We’ve made really good progress during two days of quite intense negotiations at ACAS and we’re very pleased that the trains modernisation project that management had planned to push through has now been scrapped, the team dealing with it has been disbanded and any changes will only come about by agreement.”

Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality, tweeted: “Good news but disruption to plans has already happened, impacting hospitality businesses, customers and workers – time to draw a line under these damaging rail and tube strikes once and for all. Let’s not get to a second anniversary of disruption.”

The hospitality industry is estimated to have lost over £4b as a result of the ongoing dispute.

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