First day of new rail and tube strikes begins in long-running disputes over pay, job security and conditions
Lynch said he will put Sadiq Khan “under manners” as he accused the London mayor of sacrificing rail workers’ jobs and pension schemes.
Speaking at a picket line at Euston station, Lynch said:
Sadiq Khan’s got some massive problems because he’s been put under the cosh by a right-wing Government and by the people at the Treasury. They’re holding him to ransom.
Unfortunately, what Sadiq Khan is doing is offering our members’ pension schemes, and our members’ jobs and terms and conditions, as a sacrifice to the Treasury to get funding. He needs to get into a coalition with the workers and campaign against those cuts.
Nobody can afford to go on strike. They don’t want to be on strike, they want a settlement.
They are completely tied into this dispute. I addressed a meeting of thousands of our members last night online and they are totally committed to the campaign that we have got.