London Underground (LU) workers are set to go ahead with strikes next week following a failure to resolve a dispute over jobs, pensions, and conditions. 

Members of the Rail, Maritime, and Transport (RMT) union will walk out on Tuesday, March 1, and Thursday, March 3. 

These new strikes could threaten disruption to Tube service across the capital during the working week. 

RMT said that during talks at the conciliation service Acas, it set out a framework that could enable the union's executive to consider a suspension of action. 

As the union claimed the underground "dragged their heels" and blocked a route to progress. 

During the talks, the RMT said the LU  confirmed its worst fears and that "nothing is off the table" when discussing the threat to jobs, pensions, conditions, and safety. 

General secretary of RMT Mick Lynch said: "Our members will be taking strike action next week because a financial crisis at LU has been deliberately engineered by the Government to drive a cuts agenda which would savage jobs, services, safety and threaten working conditions and‎ pensions."

Adding: "These are the very same transport staff praised as heroes for carrying London through Covid for nearly two years, often at serious personal risk, who now have no option but to strike to defend their livelihoods."

Lynch also went on to say that politicians need to "wake up" and that transport workers will "not pay the price for this cynically engineered crisis."

Acas said it remained in contact with the parties.

Transport for London’s chief operating officer, Andy Lord shared his thoughts on the new strikes calling RMT's action "extremely disappointing". 

Adding that: "TfL haven’t proposed any changes to pensions or terms and conditions, and nobody has or will lose their jobs because of the proposals we have set out."

Lord also went on to say that they "understand the frustration this proposed strike action will inevitably cause, and can assure customers that we are doing everything we can to mitigate the impacts."

The chief operating officer also asked for customers to be considerate towards each other and TfL staff as the RMT strikes will make journeys more difficult.