We ask Londoners how they feel about a possible 10% pay rise to underground workers.
London Underground workers are set for pay rises of up to 10% following threats of mass strike action, the RMT union has announced.
The revised offer comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan found an extra £30m to settle the January dispute with the RMT Tube workers and call off strike action.
London Underground workers are set for pay rises of up to 10% following threats of mass strike action, the RMT union has announced.
The revised offer comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan found an extra £30m to settle the January dispute with the RMT Tube workers and call off strike action.
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00:00 Well it definitely should not be given into strikes because that's just a form of blackmail.
00:05 London underground workers are set for pay rises of up to 10% following threats of mass
00:10 strike action the RMT union has announced. The revised offer comes after London Mayor
00:16 Sadiq Khan found an extra £30m to settle the January dispute with the RMT tube workers
00:23 and call off strike action. But is the government and local government giving in to industrial
00:28 action too often?
00:30 No absolutely we are. I don't know how you can go and find £30m from nowhere to give
00:41 them a pay rise and stop them going on strike because the election's coming up. Because
00:46 of the mayoral election's coming up. You don't want TfL to go on strike. So he's found £30m
00:52 from somewhere.
00:55 I don't, I'm always minded to be with the workers to be honest because my grandad was
00:59 a shop floor steward in the shipyard and I come from a very working class community.
01:05 My dad does a working class profession so does my mum and I don't think either of them
01:09 get paid enough so yeah to me up the workers.
01:14 Well it definitely should not be given into strikes because that's just a form of blackmail
01:17 by people that take advantage of the public and they're the ones causing all the grief
01:22 to the public so I don't agree that they should give in to the strikes. And bearing in mind
01:26 I've also come out of three years of COVID, world economy's collapsed and I know people
01:32 that are my age working hard on a third of the salary of what tube drivers and ambulance
01:38 drivers are getting as well. So shouldn't give in to strikers.