The Metronet strike next week should be a chance for all of us on London Underground who hate PPP - most of us! - to fight the privatisation agenda by showing solidarity with striking contractors.

But some LUL staff have the attitude of 'why should I care about their rights and struggles? We never wanted separate maintenance companies anyway'.

Underground workers should not see Metronet workers as the enemy. Metronet workers did not want PPP any more than LU workers did. In fact, this strike is fighting further contracting-out!

It is the bosses who wanted to carve the workforce into separate companies, enhancing their profits by worsening conditions. This fight undermines their agenda.

We should remember whose side we're on. We're with the workers in other companies - the victims of PPP - and should do all we can to ensure their strike is successful.