- Arriva Rail London workers planned to go on strike on Monday and Tuesday
A strike planned for next week by London Overground workers has been called off after improved pay offers.
RMT members working at Arriva Rail London in London Overground were scheduled to go on strike on Monday and Tuesday.
The RMT has announced that it will vote on new pay proposals next week.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “Members of London Overground working at Arriva Rail London have made progress through their determination to take strike action.”
“While the dispute is not over, enough progress has been made to suspend proceedings next week to allow our members to fully evaluate the new proposals in a referendum.”
The news comes after Sadiq Khan today announced a £6.3 million refurbishment of London Overground.
London’s mayor has branded the plans “predictable woke Liberal nonsense” and faces a furious backlash from furious commuters and MPs.
Under the bizarre election-year project, railway lines will be given individual colors and names, including Lioness, Mildmay, Windrush, Weaver, Suffragette and Liberty.
Mr Khan today defended his project, suggesting it would save passengers from a “nightmarish” journey, but Tories were quick to slam the “virtue nonsense”.
Susan Hall, Mr Khan’s Conservative opponent in May’s mayoral election, told MailOnline today: “1,000 people were murdered during his mayoralty and Sadiq Khan is showing nonsense. I am only interested in this virtue.”
“The only thing that surprised me about today’s announcement was that he didn’t name one of them Sadiq Lines.”
Former minister Paul Scally, Conservative MP for Sutton and Team, told MailOnline: Demonstrated virtue at the cost of £6m of taxpayers’ money.
“If he insisted on changing the line name, he could have considered sponsorship to inject some much-needed investment. But in any case, hearing that TfL has been slow to replace older vehicles At this moment in time, he is simply putting a new coat of paint on a creaky transport system rather than doing the work Londoners expect.”
And Conservative councilor Bob Blackman told MailOnline: “Yet another woke idea from a mayor who is getting more ridiculous by the day.”
Critics also point to costs considering Transport for London (TfL) was on the brink of bankruptcy before securing last-minute government funding, and a 56 per cent jump in underground crime due to a spike in thefts and robberies. emphasized.
Most of the £6.3 million budget will go towards updating customer information, including redesigning and re-presenting maps at all stations.
TfL will also publish new versions of the map in print and online, while public address systems will be rerecorded and directional signage at around 6,000 stations will be updated.
The Mayor said today that the cash was “within the TfL budget that has already been set aside” and that the changes would make it “much easier” to get through 113 overground stations.