Disputes

Reports from disputes as they progress, and assessments of them when they are over.

Next steps after RMT's ballot

Since RMT's industrial action ballot returned a 95% majority in favour of taking action, discussion has been ongoing amongst workers about the next steps. This has taken place formally, in union branch meetings and region-wide reps' meeting, but also informally, in workplaces across London...

Threshold cleared, now call action

RMT members on London Underground have voted to take industrial action to defend staffing levels and terms and conditions, including pension arrangements.

The ballot returned a 94% majority for strikes, and 95% majority for action-short-of-strikes, on a 52% turnout. Clearing the arbitrary...

Management's anti-democratic manipulation

Tubeworker HQ was alerted to this excellent post on Yammer, which we're reposting...


To me, the most notable thing about [Andy Lord's letter to staff] and the new flyer is that management urge RMT members not to take part in the ballot, i.e., not to use your democratic right to vote.

Unions are...

There is an alternative to grade consolidation: our response to Nick Dent

Another day, another direct communication to LU workers from a senior manager pleading with us not to strike. This time it's from LU director Nick Dent, who has posted on Yammer attacking RMT's strikes against Night Tube grade consolidation. He says strikes are holding London "to ransom", and...

Further Night Tube strikes called: now let's escalate!

RMT has named strikes on the Central and Victoria lines over Night Tube hours for the next six months, the life of the ballot mandate, after its re-ballot of its driver members on five lines over Night Tube grade consolidation returned a 92% majority for further strikes.

Continuing to strike over...

Wood Lane signal engineers vote 100% for action

Field Service Engineers at Wood Lane Signals Depot have voted 100% for industrial action short of strikes.

Although there are only seven of them, solid action will force the company to address the reasons that they are justifiably angry - in the first place, by telling their management to pull...

A Christmas letter from the boss...

London Underground Managing Director Andy Lord has written to every member of LU staff to urge us not to participate in RMT's industrial action ballot, which began yesterday (13 December). As news of this unprecedented communication spread amongst colleagues and through staff WhatsApp groups, those...

Stations Job Cull Revealed - Vote YES to strike against cuts!

So, management have finally shown their hand – or, more accurately, the first of many hands they intend to deal at us. Don't think that the other grades have escaped a bullet - they are most definitely next in line if we don't all unite to defeat this.

In a weak concoction of disingenuous points...

Solid action takes grade consolidation fight forward

The strike action on 26 and 27 November caused widespread disruption across the network. Solid pickets across the affected lines meant bosses were often unable to run even token services. Attempts to run a shuttle service between Cockfosters and Arnos Grove on the Picc soon came to nothing....

Farringdon station staff vote for strikes

Station staff at Farringdon have voted for industrial action over the imposition of a new CSA roster that will increase extreme shifts and weekend working.

The ballot returned a 95% majority for action on a 62% turnout, a clear indication that workers won’t accept their conditions being driven...

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