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The sad news of Bob Crow’s death is a deep shock to trade unionists and socialists everywhere. 

Tory plans to close ticket offices and cut nearly 1,000 Tube workers’ jobs on London Underground (LU) has suffered a blow. 

Cleaners on London Underground are to ballot for strikes because their employer, outsourcing giant ISS, is introducing fingerprint technology to book on for work.

Cleaners on Virgin West Coast’s Pendolino fleet called off a planned 24-hour strike after a settlement was reached reinstating a victimised union member.

RMT Northern Rail maintenance driver members in Traincare depots plan to strike for 48 hours over a re-grading exercise.

Tube workers’ unions the RMT and TSSA are set to enter seven weeks of talks with London transport bosses after calling off a 48-hour strike last week.

The RMT and TSSA unions suspended a strike on London Underground on Tuesday of this week as Socialist Worker went to press. 

Tube workers launched a campaign at a 100-strong meeting on Monday of this week to defend a worker who was arrested and held for 13 hours.

Central London transport ground to a halt as workers on London Underground struck for 48 hours from Tuesday evening of this week.

Boris Johnson and the Tube bosses say that new technology allows them to sack hundreds of workers and close all ticket offices. But disabled people and Tube workers told Raymie Kiernan that getting rid of workers will make a system that’s already hard to navigate even harder. And it will force some of the capital’s most vulnerable people into isolation

London Underground workers were set to strike for 48 hours from Tuesday evening of this week.