quote
DISTRICT LINE: Part Suspended - No service between Turnham and Ealing
Broadway due to signalling system failure at Acton Town. SEVERE DELAYS
on the rest of the line.

Message received 07:53am

PICCADILLY LINE: Part Suspended - No service between
Northfields/Rayners Lane and Hammersmith due to signalling systems
failure. SEVERE DELAYS on the rest of the line.

Message received 08:35am
/quote

I saw a posting in an online forum which said that an LBC Radio report
this morning reported that Earl's Court SCC signalmen did not turn up
for work today - are the above notices simply a "little white lie" or
was there really some kind of strike?