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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rebecca Speare-Cole

Union accepts four-year pay deal for London Underground workers

Noisy: tubes on the Northern line are painfully loud for some (Photo: Getty) (Picture: flickr Editorial/Getty Images)

An above-inflation four-year pay deal has been agreed between a leading rail union and London Underground.

The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said the settlement follows months of protracted negotiations stretching back to last February.

The agreement has now ended the threat of industrial action.

The deal for RPI inflation plus 0.2 per cent in each year from April 2019, and will be paid to workers including station staff and managers.

TSSA organising director Lorraine Ward said: "This is an improved offer from that which was on the table at the outset and locks in RPI-plus deals in the coming years.

"I'm pleased to say it also removes the very real threat of industrial action we were facing on the Underground.

"We know all too well the challenging times LU has been faced with as a result of the loss of government funding in the form of the operating grant, and the delays to Crossrail.

"Rightly, our members have been frustrated over the length of time it has taken to achieve a reasonable pay offer, whilst overstretched and under-resourced working on frontline stations."

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