Caroline Pidgeon has given a wide ranging interview to the Richmond and Twickenham Guardian.
As 3 new tube strikes loom, she was deeply critical of Boris Johnson:
We are in a very, very bad position in terms of our industrial relations because Boris Johnson has never properly and formally sat down with the unions.
I think he might have passed them in a corridor or something but never formally sat down.
Boris Johnson and TFL messed this up from the start with their deadline. Immediately then the unions could hold him over a barrel and start making more and more demands.”
They did quite rightly raise concerns about working late shifts but occasionally it has seemed some are just spoiling for a fight.
What we need to do is to start off with having a good relationship with the unions and there has been a failure right from 2008 from Boris Johnson to establish that relationship.
“The others want to be something, I want to do something”
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