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The proposed series of 24 hour strikes on the Jubilee line were suspended yesterday when a new pay offer was made.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) were due to stage a walk-out at 7.30 tonight over a pay discrepancy between maintenance workers employed by Alstom at the Stratford Market depot.

The Jubilee line is set to be hit be a series of 24-hour strikes from next week after union workers voted for action.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members will walk out from 7.29am on January 27 in a dispute over a pay gap between them and other tube workers.

Serco Docklands has announced the planned 48-hour DLR strike by the RMT union due to begin on Wednesday has been cancelled.

The union had threatened its members would walk out over proposed changes in rosters at the control centre in Poplar, which the company said was needed to maintain safety.

Transport for London is reporting a "decent staff turnout" despite the launch of a 48-hour strike on the tube yesterday evening.

It stated that several members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union turned up for work today, reducing disruption on the underground as a battle over pay and redundancies rages.

Thames Clippers will be providing additional shuttle services between London Bridge and Canary Wharf tomorrow if the 48-hour tube strike proceeds as planned at 6.59pm tonight.

Extra services will also operate between Greenland Pier and Canary Wharf during the morning peak.

Docklands Light Railway workers will decide later this month whether to walk out in a row over shifts.

The Rail Maritime and Transport union has advised its members to strike over plans to replace the current 12-hour weekend shifts with eight-hour duties on January 5. It claims DLR operator Serco's action would deprive 30 staff of 24 rest days a year.

Mudchute Farm employees have not ruled out further strike action as they prepare to head to the negotiating table.

Staff staged a one-day strike last month in protest against “bullying and harassment� at the inner-city farm. And union officials have warned more walk-outs will follow if planned talks break down.

Mudchute Farm staff called for heads to roll in the management team as they staged a one-day walkout.

The inner-city farm's nursery and after-school club were closed on Friday as workers picketed in protest against alleged "bullying and harassment" by chief executive Andrew Johnston.

A planned walkout by 200,000 civil servants has been suspended as officials head back to the table.

Union bosses have delayed strike action until December to allow further talks to take place in a dispute over low pay.

The proposed strike on three London Underground lines has been suspended after union members were offered an improved pay deal.

The RMT have agreed a deal "in principle" with maintenance consortium Tube Lines which will suspend the 72-hour stoppage scheduled to start at noon tomorrow.

The strike would have affected the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern lines.

STRIKE action on the tube looks a certainty after pay negotiations between the RMT and Tube Lines broke down.

A 72-hour walk-out by union members is scheduled to start at noon next Wednesday, August 20, affecting the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Northern Lines.

INTERNATIONAL news agency Thomson Reuters is set to shave 1,500 staff from its worldwide workforce.

The newly-merged financial data and news provider will reportedly cut around three per cent of its 50,000 employees in the next year, including 650 content and technology jobs and 140 of the company’s 2,600 journalists.

Union members are considering strike action after news broke of the move this week.