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News Desk
London businesses are calling on the next mayor of London to focus on improving the roads of London and preventing utility works causing so much disruption in London. According to a survey published by Londonlovesbusiness.com out of 760 businesses, 57 per cent listed as number one priority combating the disruption caused by roadworks in London. In comparison a new airport for the capital only scored 14 per cent.
The survey pointed out that the single most important thing the mayor could do is to improve public transport links to promote London as a "world class place to do business".
Richard Reid chairman of KPMG said to The Times that "London is in competition with some pretty slick transport networks, as seen in Switzerland and Germany. We cannot afford to let our ageing transport infrastructure fall behind whilst other European centres are spending money on theirs".
Other areas concerning businesses are the number of strikes in the public sector with calls being made by London businesses to tighten striking laws to prevent unnecessary disruptions. The general secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) today warned Downing Street there will be wildcat strikes if attempts are made to tighten striking laws.
Brendan Barber General Secretary of the TUC said:
"I am not complacent that we might face changes to strike laws , they would be utterly unjustified and we will resist them very, very fiercely."
“We have the tightest regulations on strikes anywhere in the advanced industrial world and there is no decent intellectual or political justification for tightening them still further."
“If they do try and change the law the Government would run a real risk of provoking more groups of workers to think ‘We’ll go down different routes - we won’t have ballots. We’ll carry out wild cat responses.’ That would make strikes much more difficult to deal with.”
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