Tube drivers will strike for 24 hours on same day as rail walkout

Tube drivers are to stage a 24-hour strike over 6 and 7 December in two separate disputes, the RMT union has said. Members of the union on the Piccadilly and Hammersmith & City lines will walk out from 9.30pm on 6 December amid claims of a breakdown in industrial relations, breaches of procedures and bullying and harassment of staff. The strike action will coincide with a two-day stoppage by RMT members on Southern Railway in a long-running row over changes to the role of conductors.