The CBI has upped its call for changes to employment law so that more workers would have to vote before a strike could be held.
The RMT is set to walk out this weekend over a dispute involving a driver member who was sacked by LU.
Only 29% of the RMT members voted in favour of strike action.
The CBI commented on the planned London Underground strikes which are expected to disrupt the tube network from June 19th.
Katja Hall, CBI Chief Policy Director, said:
“This strike is an attempt to cause maximum disruption for Londoners on a minimal turnout.
“It can’t be right that just 29% of the balloted workforce voted in favour of this strike and that the tribunal case at the centre of this dispute has not even been decided. Yet the travelling public now faces a difficult period trying to get in and around the capital.
“We are calling for the law to be changed so strikes can only go ahead with the backing of a significant proportion of the workforce.”
The CBI speaks for some 240,000 businesses that together employ around a third of the private sector workforce.
Bob Crow, General Secretary of the RMT, responded to the CBI:
“Who elects their members who have the power to ruin the lives of entire communities and plunge tens of thousands of vulnerable people into uncertainty at Southern Cross?
“There is no ballot threshold there and these greed merchants should keep their noses out of our business.”
