Mark Levy has torn into the RTBU amid strikes “ramping up” over the next two weeks.

Sydney’s rail union is prepared to drop industrial action, if free fares are offered to commuters.

A list of “crazy demands” have been sent, and the union says it will drop industrial action until the 7th of January, if services are made free until a new pay deal is reached.

But the state government has rejected the offer, arguing it would cost millions of dollars which it “doesn’t have”.

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