A London transport boss has dashed hopes that the RMT may scrap its second planned strike this week.
Nick Dent, Director of Customer Operations on the London Underground for Transport for London, said the union was clear it would be walking out again on Thursday.
Asked if there was any chance of a deal that could prevent the second strike from occurring, he said: “Unfortunately, not this week. We did ask yesterday. We were in talks at Acas.
Dent told BBC Radio London yesterday: “We asked them to suspend both strike days this week to allow further talks to take place.
“We did agree together that talks would continue next week, but unfortunately, the RMT made clear to us yesterday they had made the decision to go ahead with both days this week.
“We are available for talks. We’d talk today, or we’d talk tomorrow, but they made clear, unfortunately, that both of these days will be going ahead this week.”
