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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tube-strike-threat-to-royal-wedding.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Aslef said London Underground drivers are threatening to strike on the day of the royal wedding" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-tube-strike-threat-to-royal-wedding.jpg" alt="Aslef said London Underground drivers are threatening to strike on the day of the royal wedding"/></a></p>
<p>Suggestions of a Tube strike on the day of the royal wedding have been condemned as &#8220;cynical&#8221; by Downing Street.</p>
<p>The criticism came after Aslef floated the idea of calling members out on April 29, when Prince William is due to marry Kate Middleton.</p>
<p>Drivers went on strike on Boxing Day in the dispute about bank holiday pay, which remains deadlocked.</p>
<p>London Underground took legal action to try to stop the Boxing Day walkout but failed and the strike went ahead, disrupting one of the busiest shopping days of the year.</p>
<p>Aslef is demanding three days&#8217; pay and a day off in lieu for working bank holidays.</p>
<p>Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s spokesman rounded on the suggestion of a strike on April 29. &#8220;Any such plans will be seen as a cynical attempt to undermine a day of national celebration,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Posting on social networking site Twitter, London Mayor Boris Johnson wrote: &#8220;Can&#8217;t believe this. Surely not!&#8221;</p>
<p>London Underground managing director Mike Brown said: &#8220;Tube drivers already have very fair levels of pay and get around seven weeks holiday a year, including allowance for bank holidays. The Aslef leadership is tearing up long-standing agreements that cover pay and annual leave and demanding even more; triple time and another day off.</p>
<p>&#8220;Londoners will simply be stunned at such a claim. The only way to resolve this issue is by getting round the table for constructive talks. I urge the Aslef leadership to end pointless strike threats and work with us to resolve this without any disruption to London.&#8221;</p>
<p>Aslef&#8217;s general secretary Keith Norman said the union&#8217;s executive had yet to formally discuss timing a strike to coincide with the Prince&#8217;s wedding, and criticism was &#8220;premature&#8221;, he said.</p>
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