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Action over unfair disciplinary procedures on London Undergound is escalating as 5,000 RMT union members join drivers in balloting for strike action.

Around 350 people met in London last Saturday for a meeting organised by the RMT union on the crisis in working class political representation.

London mayor Ken Livingstone chose a dinner at the Mansion House in the City of London last week to launch an attack on the rail union, the RMT. An audience of financiers gave him an ovation when he told them he "had not the slightest intention" of conceding to the union in the staffing dispute on London Underground as this would be "rewarding bad behaviour".

London Underground bosses have been forced to come up with a new offer to resolve the dispute over staffing and safety which has led to two 24-hour strikes by station staff in the RMT union.

Some 370 members of the RMT union on Virgin’s Cross Country line struck last weekend, the third time they have held a one-day strike in a dispute over Sunday working.

The RMT union has called a conference to discuss working class political representation.

London Underground bosses were given a bloody nose when thousands of stations and revenue staff in the RMT union walked out on New Year’s Eve to defend the deal we’d won for a shorter working week.

More than 300 guards in the RMT union on Virgin Cross Country struck on New Year’s day and are set to be out again each Sunday in a dispute over the erosion of Sunday pay rates.

About 100 RMT union members at South Eastern Trains (SET) are set to strike for 24 hours on Monday of next week.

Members of the RMT rail union working for Metronet are being balloted for strike action.

The RMT is the fastest growing union in Britain. What do you put that down to?

Fight over pay and reprivatisation The RMT union is balloting 1,350 members on South East Trains for strikes to protect pay and conditions at the firm, which faces reprivatisation next year.