RMT slams 'disgraceful stitch up' TFL short-term funding deal

'This is a disgraceful stitch up of a deal and it will be resisted by our members whether it comes from Whitehall or City Hall through London wide industrial action if necessary.

'It is completely unacceptable for transport workers who have risked and in some cases tragically lost their lives to now be asked to pay this political price for the coronavirus.

'Attacks on workers pensions are wholly unacceptable while driverless trains are unwanted, unaffordable and unsafe.

'With funding only lasting until December London is being held to ransom with a gun to its head rather than being given the long term stable funding deal that is necessary to rebuild the economy as we move out of lockdown.'