00:00Listen, we're creative people. This is what we do. We make deals. We make deals day in, day out.
00:06You only see us when we don't, when things go wrong.
00:08So I am quietly optimistic that it's going to require TfL to move towards us.
00:15We're always prepared to compromise. We're not hardliners in the sense that we just put a little bit of the arms up and never move.
00:22We will make a reasonable settlement with TfL if they're in the market for a deal.
00:26And we'll know that pretty soon, I think, today, once we check the temperature of those negotiations.
00:31We're seeing our members not making it to retirement. They're going into ill health as a direct result of the shift work, the shift patterns they're undertaking.
00:38We've got a duty to our people to address that and we take it very serious and so should TfL.
00:42So we're going into the talks completely unconditionally. We're making no prior conditions on how they go.
00:50We're going open-minded and positive. We'll do our best to make a reasonable settlement.
00:53If we get some movement, we'll come back to our people, ask them to look at it, see if we're in a place where we can settle.
01:00If they don't make any progress, we'll have to report that back to our people.
01:04And I'm pretty sure if you get 500 RMT members in a town or meeting and telling them the employer's made no movement,
01:10their move's going to be for further strike action.
01:12And then we caught it in three weeks.
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