Wage negotiations for groups like tube workers doctors firemen etc, should be held in public, that way both sides would have to be honest..
Employers would be immediately held to account by the government if they were seen to be acting unreasonably, after all the government wants re electing, and employees, union members would not tolerate losing money by striking if they felt that their negotiators were not acting in their best interests.
When you look at the offer which looks likely to be accepted, it seems to be a fair offer, it is not going to cost LUL a fortune and the drivers have got what they wanted, which, as they kept saying, was obviously not money.
It looks to me that had it been visible to all what was being said in the negotiations these strikes would never have happened