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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

London Tube strike: Sadiq Khan gives pension pledge in bid to halt union action

Sadiq Khan on Wednesday made an 11th hour appeal to the RMT union to call off Thursday’s Tube strike, warning it would have a “serious impact” on London’s economy.

The Mayor insisted he would “not support any unfair changes” to the Transport for London pension scheme — one of two issues at the heart of the strike, which will see the sixth 24-hour walkout on the Underground this year.

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