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History of bus and tube strikes

Request ID: FOI-1931-1617
Date published: 10 March 2017

You asked

Hi, I am a research analyst doing work on the London transport system. Can I get a list of bus AND tube strikes from Jan 1 2000 to now? I would like the number of strikes for each (bus and tube) and the number of days in strike.

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-1931-1617

 

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 9 January 2017 asking for information about strike action. Please accept my apologies for the delay in our response.

 

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we hold some of the information you require.

 

A strike is what is normally referred to as a withdrawal of labour from an organised group of employees in protest to the organisation’s action or proposed course of action in a particular matter. The impact of any strike action taken against the organisation varies and is dependent on the nature of the dispute, the number of unions involved and where the strike has been called. Therefore the impact of the strikes listed below vary from affecting the whole tube network to localised action affecting only part of the network.

 

We encourage unions to engage in discussions to resolve any disputes that may result in industrial action. When it has not been possible to prevent industrial action, we roll out well prepared operational plans to ensure that services operate safely at all times under busier than normal conditions. We deploy additional staff (including managers and revenue control staff) to assist local staff and provide advice to customers. We issue communications to inform customers that services will be busier than usual. Extra bus and river services are operated to help people get around, and we continue to update the TfL website as well as our other social media outlets which we encourage our customers to check frequently to see how their journeys could be affected.

 

Please see the information you have requested below regarding industrial action on London Underground since 2008 which is as far back as we hold. The dates provided are the information we hold but there may be some differences from actual strike dates due to the varying start and finish times of such action having different impact on each day’s service. Please note that the effect of these strikes on our services varied and may have been localised.

 

However, please note that we do not hold data on the number, length or type of industrial action on buses as these are operated by private companies.

 

Year

Nature of Dispute

Strike Dates

Line / Network

2017

Station Staffing and Safety Arrangements

08/01/17 to 09/01/17

Network wide

2016

Christmas and New Year Working

24/12/16 to 25/12/16

Hammersmith & City Line and District Line

Breakdown of Industrial Relations

23/03/16 to 24/03/16

Piccadilly Line

Breakdown of Industrial Relations

15/09/16 to 16/09/16

Hammersmith & City Line and District Line

2015

Employee Terms and Conditions

28/09/2015

Waterloo & City Line

Dismissal of Employee

07/03/15 to 08/03/15

Network wide

Pay, Night Tube and Every Job Matters

08/07/15 to 09/07/15

Network wide

05/08/15 to 06/08/15

Network wide

2014

Dismissal of Employee

01/12/14 to 02/12/14

Northern Line

Breakdown in Industrial Relations

22/08/14 to 23/08/14

Central Line

Employee Terms and Conditions

28/04/14 to 30/04/14

Network wide

24/05/14 to 27/05/14

Network wide

01/07/14 to 09/07/14

Network wide

09/07/14 to 15/07/14

Network wide

Every Job Matters

04/02/14 to 06/02/14

Network wide

09/05/14 to 10/05/14

Network wide

13/06/14 to 14/06/14

Network wide

2012

Breakdown in Industrial Relations

26/12/2012

Network wide

2011

Boxing Day Payments

26/12/2011

Network wide

Relations with Reps and Activists

19/06/2011

Network wide

Dismissal of Employee

14/01/11 to 15/01/11

Northern Line

2010

Dismissal of Employee

17/12/10 to 18/12/10

Bakerloo Line

Boxing Day Payments

26/12/2010

Network wide

Dismissal of Employee

06/09/10 to 07/09/10

Central Line

Reorganisation

06/09/2010

Network wide

05/02/2010

Network wide

Breakdown of Industrial Relations

21/07/2010

Metropolitan Line

11/08/2010

Metropolitan Line

Dismissal of Employee

23/12/2009

Jubilee Line

2009

Rates of Pay and Conditions of Service

09/06/09 to 11/06/09

Network wide

Breakdown of Industrial Relations

21/04/09 to 22/04/09

Victoria Line

20/05/09 to 21/05/09

Victoria Line

08/04/09 to 09/04/09

Jubilee Line

2008

Breakdown of Industrial Relations

22/08/08 to 23/08/08

District Line

Transfer of Customer Service Assistants

07/08/08 to 08/08/08

Metropolitan Line

Dismissal of Employee

27/07/08 to 28/07/08

Bakerloo Line

22/08/08 to 23/08/08

Bakerloo Line

 

 

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Lee Hill

Senior FOI Case Officer

 

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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