London Tube Strikes

I'm sure they've been Tube strikes before and it hasn't resulted in shows having to cancel.

I already had 2 plays booked for Thursday 3 so have hastily made plans to use mainline rail more plus the overground and walk further than usual too. Buses should also be an option but are likely to be busier and the roads more crowded. On previous such strike days, 60% of tube services have actually run, but there's no knowing what it will be like this time and I'd rather not run the risk of being late.

Full Tube strike days can be horrible so I wouldn't be surprised if some shows cancel.

The Tube drivers/staff who are striking are entitled idiots and if some services are running then I'll be doing everything I can to support the ones who choose to work by trying to get into work myself. The recent Night Tube strikes have barely had any impact at all so hopefully this one will be the same. The unions have been far too powerful for far too long and it has to stop.

I don’t think there have been cancellations before but if you can still get into town and out again there’ll be opportunities for many more returns than usual!

As the tube strikes become more regular it's another reason to avoid going to London .
Every visit to London in the last year has had a tube line closed either to strike action or the rebuilding work and even the new timings where you seem to get three trains in ten minutes and then have to wait ten to fifteen for the next group of them.
I know London well enough to get around the central area but as London venues are beginning to be more out of centre or via DLR lines it's more of a concern.
London buses are meant to be a great way to get around but outside regular users how many people know the numbers and routes, for out of town visitors the tube is the London travel option, normally quick and easy to understand visually regardless of language.
Most visitors will only find out about these strikes on the day.they may cope with it then but less likely to want a quick return visit.

Plus I’m sure they’ve noticed that for the last two years the number of people using their service has been very low and so less money is available to pay them.

Well, in the sense that pensions are a form of pay I suppose.

Listen to this genius:

"RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “Our members will be taking strike action [next week] because a financial crisis at London Underground has been deliberately engineered by the Government to drive a cuts’ agenda which would savage jobs, services, safety and threaten their working conditions and pensions.”"

So, Covid was deliberately engineered by the Government to ensure fewer people used the tube and thus caused a financial crisis at TfL ? 

I'm not sure they've been on strike about pay in recent years. Still, who really needs pensions and decent working conditions?

I suspect he's referring to the decision taken in 2015 by then PM Cameron and then mayor Johnson to remove all subsidy from TfL, making it the only major public transport system in the world which is expected to turn a profit to survive. www.ft.com/content/b7392524-8923-11e5-90de-f44762bf9896

I'm glad someone mentioned that they're not striking about pay, and haven't for a good few years now.

I very much doubt shows will be cancelled. They never have been before for transport strikes. Venues and productions are making contingency plans for potential staff absence/lateness.

Shows didn't cancel last Friday when storm Eunice paralysed all rail routes in and out of London.

No, he isn't - after all, virtually every business in the UK got subsidy in some form over the last two years, so that barely makes TfL special. He's making the point that TfL is now expected to be profitable again, while the Government still subsidises every other form of public transport in the UK. It's not about the last two years, it's about the next ten.