Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn called for an enquiry into industrial relations at Transport for London yesterday after two drivers won their cases at an employment tribunal.

The drivers said they were dismissed for trade union activity rather than the allegations made by TfL.

The dispute is likely to precipitate five days of strikes beginning next Monday and another five days in June.

Jeremy Corbyn told Liberal Conspiracy:

There appears to be an obsession by the Johnson administration with attacking the unions, particularly the RMT.

This Union has genuine concerns about the safely of all of us on the trains and the two drivers who are subject of the current dispute have both won their cases at a employment tribunal who decided they were wrongly dismissed for union activities.

Maybe it’s time for an enquiry into industrial relations in TfL?

Yesterday, Vince Cable warned that Libdem ministers were “not in the mood” to be blamed for Mayor Boris Johnson’s “lack of strategy” for dealing with unions.

Libdem Employment relations minister Ed Davey went further, criticising the Mayor for failing to meet RMT leaders for talks for two years.

That suggests Boris Johnson should have got off his backside and engaged with Bob Crow and RMT members, however difficult they are.

Boris is trying to pass the buck when actually the buck stops with City Hall.

Boris was not happy with the remarks and wants the government to pass legislation making it more difficult for unions to hold strikes.

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