Tony Travers

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The RMT Union represents 10,000 workers on the London Underground

trade unions were suspended, a threat of strikes on the London Underground last week after successful talks with Transport for London (TfL). It has a blow on The Tube during 2019 but have improved Industrial Relations , since Sadiq took over Khan as The Mayor of London Boris Johnson three years ago?

the Numbers that show by the BBC that in The Past 11 years, since Mr Johnson, mayor Ken Livingstone took over, there were More Than 36,000 days lost due to strikes.

The Number of days lost, is high, because the DRL is one "a day lost for every employee absent", and it has led them to describe an academic, the London Underground as a "museum of bad Industrial Relations ".

Various disputes over issues such as, reduction of staff, new rotas, staff layoffs, and have led to 68 individual dates of strikes since April 2008.

The London School of Economics, said Professor Tony Travers , to avoid these industrial lines similar to "trigger points" that any mayor would aim to avoid any big strikes.

"These trigger points are usually Something New ," he said. "The Night tube, the Olympic games, or work "Boxing Day " one.

"have used the unions a long time, the U-Bahn as a good leverage, if you try to pay better, because of the monopoly that it serves. "

More Than 7,000 days were lost to strike Action on four dates in the spring of 2014

Between April 2008 and may 2012, when Mr Johnson of the first spell as mayor of London, 12,523 shifts were on strike lost - try, in spite of him.

the Numbers further 19,689 work showed days were lost, while he was The Mayor during his second term in office between may 2012 and may 2016.

In his 2016 mayor of London election campaign, Mr Khan promised "" and he has 3,824 shifts seen lost strike days during his time in the town hall.

As mayor of London, Boris Johnson , called to be banned for the strikes unless 50% of the employees at the workplace took place in a ballot

While there is significantly less work days lost to strikes under Mr Khan, there are 25 appointments to the workers ' struggle in his three years as mayor, compared with 33 over the last eight years, Mr Johnson was in office.

"Under Sadiq lost it was a few days," Prof said Travers. "But the entire set of data for The Tube strikes, is particularly awful. "

TfL said the impact of The Strike was dependent on the nature of the dispute, The Number of unions involved and where The Strike had been called.

The accompanying figures, the strikes that affected either the whole Tube or only a part of it.

Almost 70 periods of strikes have been made, the said various trade unions since April 2008,

A spokesman for The Mayor of London, a strike would have "reduced", Mr Khan, because he "listens to the concerns of the workers".

But, to be Conservative, London Assembly member Keith Prince Mr defends record Johnson, instead, Mr Khan, "a worse strike record (accused as) all his predecessors".

According to the TfL data, The Strike was mostly of the RMT union, which has about 10,000 members, the employees on The Tube , and saw workers walking on 34 occasions.

"Transport for London", he says that additional employees on strike days

Aslef, which represents 2,456 tube driver, it took 13 dates of strikes, while Unite had eight disputes which led to industrial Action .

The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) went on two occasions about "employee conditions".

Aslef's Finn Brennan said his Union was "regular meetings between the trade unions, Mr Khan and his team".

He added: "Aslef used these meetings to highlight topics that go beyond the competence of the machines, meetings with employers and to promote a reasonable attitude on the matters we have raised with The Company . "

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Source of news: bbc.com