Jubilee Line strikes: Commuters face chaos of two 24-hour strikes in June

Tube drivers will stage two 24-hour walkouts on the Jubilee Line over changes to staff timetables, it has been announced.

The strikes, set for Wednesday, June 6, and Thursday, June 14, were confirmed by the Tube union RMT.

RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said staff were protesting a raft of changes to timetables that will negatively impact their work-life balance.

He said: “It is outrageous that tube managers are trying to bulldoze through timetable changes without agreement that ride roughshod over existing rostering agreements."

He added: “Drivers are angry at the impact on work life balance and rightly see this move as the thin end of a very long wedge that could see processes and agreements unilaterally shredded by tube bosses."

Nigel Holness, London Underground’s Director of Network Operations, denied that timetable changes break current agreements and said they would benefit customers.

He said: "The new Jubilee line timetable will benefit thousands of passengers every day as we extend the most frequent, peak-time service from 30 minutes to two hours.

"We have agreements with our trade unions on the amount of weekend working we ask our drivers to do, and implementing this timetable keeps us well within those agreements.

"We encourage the RMT to continue working with us in order to deliver these huge benefits to customers rather than calling for unnecessary industrial action."