We have learnt that TfL’s annual report, due to be published next week, will confirm that the number of senior managers earning over £100,000 a year has gone up from 123 to 163 in the past year, an increase of nearly one third. If you include Metronet and Crossrail, which is now part of TfL, the number of managers earning six figures plus goes up to 231. These figures don’t even include the huge sums that are being paid out to management consultants.

Clearly, this growing army of very senior staff are in no position to lecture RMT members on pay restraint and job losses and we will, of course, be using these figures in our campaign to defend jobs, pay and working conditions on TfL and LUL.