LUL: prepare to fight on pay
Part of the funding settlement agreed between the Department for Transport and TfL says that future pay awards must “follow public sector pay policy.”
Part of the funding settlement agreed between the Department for Transport and TfL says that future pay awards must “follow public sector pay policy.”
Following a board meeting on 30 August, TfL has accepted a funding settlement from the Department of Transport.
RMT has called a meeting for LUL reps on 1 September to discuss the next steps in our dispute over jobs, conditions, and pensions.
By that time, we'll know the outcome of the TfL board's discussion on whether to accept a new funding settlement, and what strings are attached.
If, as we all expect...
The Transport for London board will meet on Tuesday 30 August to discuss whether to accept the £3.6 billion funding settlement from the Department for Transport.
Although the contents of the proposed settlement will, if accepted, have a profound impact on our working lives, and on the services we...
Night Tube station staff struck for the first time on 19 August.
The strike was well-supported amongst Night Tubers. The RMT's industrial power across the job - stations, trains, fleet, and elsewhere - ensured no Night Tube service ran at all.
This was the first time Night Tube station have struck...
Our pay deal on London Underground expires in April 2023. Our fight to get a decent settlement will be stronger and more effective if we start it as early as possible.
RMT London Transport Region has called a cleaners' campaign meeting for 25 August, from 11:00 at the Indian YMCA (W1T 6AQ).
RMT and TSSA members at Network Rail and multiple TOCs are out on strike again today (18 August), with another strike planned on Saturday (20 August). RMT members on London Underground and London Overground are , alongside Unite members across TfL/LU, and London United/RATP bus drivers.
It's great to see RMT has called a public rally in defence of public transport in London, on Wednesday 31 August, 7pm in Conway Hall (near Holborn, WC1R 4RL).
We've long argued that RMT's industrial action on LU needs to be supplemented with wider campaigning that emphasises the political backdrop...
Our strike on 19 August will be alongside London Overground (Arriva Rail London) workers, who are striking to win a decent pay rise, after their bosses offered a paltry 5%.
They've also begun balloting in a separate, parallel dispute over what Arriva Rail London calls "stations efficiencies"...
As LU pushes ahead with its plans for job cuts on stations, local reps are consulting members on the company's proposals. The pack issued to reps tells them that any proposed changes "must be cost neutral". They've even put it in bold, in case we miss it.
In other words, the company views its cuts...
Our strike on 19 August will see us take action alongside RMT members on London Overground, mostly employed as station staff, who are striking to win a decent pay increase.
We'll also be striking alongside up to 1,600 Unite members at London United, a bus company owned by French firm RATP, who will...
Yesterday, the company was telling passengers that Chancery Lane station was closed for engineeering works. It wasn't - it was closed because there were not enough station staff.
And it told the public that the Central Line had massive delays because of train cancellations. But why were there train...
TfL has offered a 3% pay increase to centrally-employed staff (i.e., those who don’t work for London Underground or similar subsidiaries), backdated to April 2022.*
TfL workers paid over £24k have faced a pay freeze during the pandemic, as emergency bailout funding was conditional on freezing pay...
Now South Harrow Sidings is partially opened, management are hoping that the 15 minute chat and video are enough to get drivers to go in and out with no problem. Unfortunately for us the ballot failed that could have seen legal action short of strike to refuse to do the moves in and out of the...
Grant Shapps has announced that he has put a long-term funding deal for TfL "on the table", in order to "ensure services are supported and £3.6bn of capital projects take place by 2024."
TfL commissioner Andy Byford has said TfL and City Hall will now consider "the details" of the deal.
But...
RMT is planning a further strike in our dispute on jobs, pensions, and conditions for 19 August. The union has given the employer until 2 August to guarantee it will drop plans to cut jobs, reform pensions, and impose new terms and conditions. If no guarantee is forthcoming, the strike will take...
The Night Tube driver strikes have been suspended. RMT NEC called off further action while a three month trial period takes place in which all depots can agree a minimum number on each line who want to do Night Tube duties. This follows a meeting of driver reps who agreed to accept this offer...
In Employee Bulletin sent to station staff on 22 July, LU announced it was backing down on some key elements of its plan to impose a new framework on the revenue department.
It has scrapped the plan to introduce cover weeks for revenue staff, and has said it will retain the current arrangement...
RMT’s recent strikes have rightly highlighted the 600 stations jobs LU currently has in its sights. But, unless they were stopped, it was always only a matter of time until they moved on to other functions.
It looks like the company is now holding vacancies in some fleet depots, which is very...
The extreme heat on Monday and Tuesday saw some station closures, including Oxford Circus, which closed for a couple of hours due to a fire alert, caused by a part in an escalator machine chamber overheating, and Lambeth North, which had to close when its lifts overheated.
Part of our role as...
Building common organisation and power is undermined when workers in “higher” grades abuse the authority that gives them to lord it over workers in “lower” ones.
An example? CSAs at some stations during the recent heatwave have reported Customer Service Supervisors and Customer Service Managers...
This week, we've all been struggling to cope with the unprecedented heat levels, but gateline colleagues at Old Street have surely been handed a particularly raw deal.
It's been reported that the air conditioning unit in the managers' office has a hot air exhaust pipe that's been piping hot air...
At a meeting on Friday 15 July, RMT reps resolved to call further strikes on LU in August, around the time of the strikes in the national rail dispute (18 and 20 August).
The announcement is welcome, as it sends a signal to the management and our membership that our fight to defend pensions, jobs...
An RMT activist gives their thoughts on the next steps in the LU dispute...
RMT reps from across LU will meet on 15 July to discuss the next steps in our dispute over jobs, pensions, and conditions.
TfL's current funding settlement is due to expire on 13 July, so will either be extended on the...
Studies in the past have shown that temperatures in some of our workplaces can exceed the maximum legal temperature for transporting cattle.
Shockingly, whilst there is a legal maximum for transporting cows, there is no legal maximum temperature for humans. It’s good to see the TUC has launched an...
A correspondent from a busy Zone 1 station tells us the 15:00-23:00 cleaning shift on Friday was covered by just one cleaner. Sometimes there are as many as three, but usually at least two. Having just one cleaner working perhaps the busiest shift of the day, on a busy weekend, is indefensible.
The...
A supporter of the Workers' Liberty newspaper Solidarity spoke to a striking station worker and RMT activist on a picket line during the 6 June station staff strike. This is a slightly edited transcript of the interview.
The dispute is about three...
The app to submit requests for mutual changeovers of duties and annual leave has definitely improved the MCO process. But we reckon that developing it further could lead to even more benefits for work/life balance, particularly on stations.
In train depots, although not without flaws and...
The Evening Standard, certainly no friend to Tube workers, reports that 600 "TfL fat cats" are paid over £100k per year.
The number of people earning over £100k is up by 1/3 on the previous year. A total of £1.6m was also paid out in bonuses.
Tubeworker is normally staunchly opposed to job cuts...
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