London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been slammed for accepting a deal with the RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers), as planned strike action was suspended.
The train workers had planned a week-long walkout over pay and working conditions, before Khan offered a deal worth £30million.
The strikes, which planned to shut down almost all tube services across the capital, were called off at the eleventh hour as the agreement was reached.
RMT's General Secretary Mick Lynch said he "looks forward to getting into urgent negotiations with TfL", in order to develop a "suitable agreement and resolution to the dispute."
Sadiq Khan has given RMT £30million in a new deal to call of strike action
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City Hall has not confirmed where the Labour Mayor was able to obtain the £30million sum from.
The deal has sparked backlash from other striking unions, who had offers rejected from Khan in recent years.
A source representing ASLEF told The Times that the decision has "undermined everything" previously claimed to their union, as Khan had told them there was "absolutely no more money".
Reacting to the news of the deal, commentator Carole Malone said Khan was a "buffoon" for handing RMT millions of pounds.
Malone told host Mark Dolan: "TfL has had £6billion in bailouts since 2020. In August 22, we got £3.6billion that was supposed to make do till the end of 2024.
"This guy is just haemorrhaging money and he's just caved in to Lynch.
"He's not said where this money is coming from, how it's going to be paid, but I can guarantee it's going to come from Londoners, who he uses as walking cash machines."
Malone added that Khan is "unable to control" the strike action, and highlighted that over 140 strikes have taken place since first taking office in 2016.
Carole Malone says Khan is 'haemorrhaging money' for Londoners
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Malone then accused the RMT of "using Khan", highlighting: "The average salary for a tube driver is 65 grand a year. These are not people on the bones of their backside.
She added: "He talked about the government taking an adversarial approach towards the unions. Well, it's better than taking a crawling on your belly approach to the unions by just giving in and giving it to them.
"It should be a confrontation, it should be a battle. That's the governments job.
"All the money is going to be spent on the public services and it'll be Londoners who are paying for what happens."
