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Evening Standard
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Sami Quadri

Tube drivers on £72,000 ‘can’t afford to buy a house in London', says RMT boss

Eddie Dempsey, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) - (PA)

Tube drivers are striking because they cannot afford to buy a house in London on their £72,000 salary, a union leader has claimed.

Eddie Dempsey, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, defended the action as strikes that have brought the capital to a standstill entered a fourth day. The union is demanding a four-day, 32-hour working week.

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