Bring These Battles Together

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Rickmansworth groups RMT members have voted by a stunning 93% for strike action against forced displacements - with a 44% turnout that is very creditable given the one-week ballot period. They will strike on Thursday 7th.

Charing Cross group station staff held a day’s strike action in support of a sacked workmate. East Ham group staff are to ballot against their woeful local management regime. Waterloo group staff are to ballot to defend an unfairly sacked colleague.

Cleaners are to strike again, and both CBS Outdoor poster staff and TubeLines workers plan to strike.

On the non-LUL companies, the key issue is pay. On LUL, pay will come to a head next year but right now, there is systematic mistreatment of staff. There are plenty of injustices reported in this issue of Tubeworker. There is also a threat to displace drivers out of Leytonstone depot. And Service Managers appear to be going power-crazy, pulling service control staff up for the silliest things.

The icing on management’s cake is their attendance crackdown. They are determined to keep on whipping you into work when you are ill, their latest ruse being ‘patterns’ of sickness, licensing themselves to punish you even if you don’t break their already-harsh policy.

Tubeworker has spotted a pattern: these are not isolated incidents, but part of a systematic abuse of workers’ rights. Our unions need to treat them not as isolated incidents, but as a generalised attack. We should build towards a company-wide, all-grades dispute. And in the meantime, everyone must unite behind our workmates in those areas that are already fighting back.

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