In a Radio 4 interview, Gerry Doherty (TSSA General Secretary) tried to explain TSSA's position: they are still in dispute but have suspended their strike because they have received assurances over two of their three aims.

The interviewer tried to press Gerry to condemn the RMT for continuing its strike action. After trying to dodge the question, Gerry eventually could not bring himself to take the bait. He said, 'I am not surprised that rail workers are going on strike in these conditions' and then went on to give a brilliant justification for the strike, saying that it was challenging the privatisation, that PPP had always been a terrible idea.

Gerry just showed up the inconsistency and hypocrisy of his own union: you support a strike's aims but instruct your members to undermine it. Having more than one union on the Tube really does play into the bosses' hands, against the workers' own interests.