Senior LUL manager Nick Dent has written to Aslef thanking them for accepting the company's 5% pay offer (i.e., a pay cut). Scandalously, the letter also says that, unless the three other unions have accepted the cut by 31 December, LUL will being the process of imposing it.
Between 1 and 9 December, train driver members of Aslef employed by 14 Train Operating Companies (TOCs) held a Rest Day Working ban, as well as a series of one day strikes between the 2nd and 8th, on various groups of two or more TOCs out of the 14.
This was the first time the union had employed...
RMT members working mainline Train Operating Companies have voted overwhelmingly to accept the latest offer from employers, securing a 5% pay increase. The settlement also sets out a framework for TOC-by-TOC negotiations over changes to staffing levels and terms and conditions.
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has launched a Palestine Solidarity Fund, which will direct donations to humanitarian causes via the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions.
The ITF writes: "Transport unions in Egypt and across the region have committed to delivering as...
On 1 December we begin a nine day ban on Rest Day Working (RDW, voluntary overtime) and a series of one day strikes by train driver members of Aslef employed by Train Operating Companies (TOCs). A long-running dispute over pay has turned also into a battle over conditions of employment.
On the...
As voting papers land on doormats in RMT's ballot for industrial action over LUL pay, there's plenty of discussion in mess rooms across the job about the issue.
Aslef is recommending acceptance, but even the most union-loyal Aslef drivers typically concede that, given inflation in April 2023 was 11...
The new edition of our bulletin is now online.
We discuss the Tories' "Minimum Service Levels" anti-strike law, and encourage readers in RMT to vote yes in the ballot for industrial action over LUL pay.
Click here to download the bulletin.
Freight operator DB Cargo has announced that it intends to cut 95 drivers' jobs.
Although it plans to do this by scrapping vacant posts rather than by making any drivers redundant, it is still a very bad move.
Firstly, if it doesn't need these jobs right now, then it could keep the same number of...
A little bit of LinkedIn digging has discovered that our TfL Commissioner Andy Lord (or "Lord Andy", to give him his correct and full title) has two jobs.
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