Workers' Liberty

RMT members working for Metronet voted 751 to 171 for strike action - that's a whopping 81.5%.

The union's Executive decided to take this mandate to management and demand the guarantees we need on pensions, passes and privatisation (PPP?), but did not go so far as to name strike action or even to resolve to strike should the demands go unheeded.

However, the talks have been unproductive, and Metronet is now denying that it has the power to give any of the guarantees anyway! Amazing, it has the power to drain public money and rip off its own workers, the Underground and the travelling public - but not to give its own staff the basic rights that other Tube workers have.

Metronet workers are sick of platitudes about 'intentions' to possibly, maybe, perhaps, if we can, in principle, give us the right to free travel, a decent pension and not to be sold like slaves to another company. We want the passes in our pockets - anything short, and Metronet will face strikes.