RMT has cancelled tube strikes over two 24-hour periods this week and has also cancelled planned strikes in June. A spokesman for the union said: “At the eleventh hour the employers has shifted its position allowing us to further explore our members’ concerns around the imposition of new rosters, fatigue and safety issues.” Their position on the four-day-week is untouched then…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”