Workers' Liberty

(This is an initial assessment, as Tubeworker gets to grips with the facts and the issues. Comments and disagreements are, as ever, welcome.)

The Metronet strike next week should be a chance for all of us on London Underground who hate PPP - most of us!

Following a massive 90+% Yes vote, RMT has called a three-day strike from 18:00 on 15th April, to stop Metronet re-privatising its staff by forcibly transferring them to Bombardier.

Following a massive Yes vote in their industrial action ballot, RMT has set out plans for industrial action on Metronet. Here's the union's press release ...

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As the last issue of Tubeworker reported, Metronet workers are heading towards strike action.

As we have reported previously, Metronet is trying again to 'outsource' a large chunk of its work, which will involve lots of workers being re-privatised, transferred to Bo

As part of PPP, all new trains introduced by Metonet on BCV and SLL will be built and maintained by multi-national corporation Bombardier.

Next week’s strike action on Metronet is off, after RMT and the company reached a settlement. But the deal is a mixed bag.

Two resounding ballot results have set the stage for an effective fight against Metronet's disastrous outsourcing plans.

Just as TubeLines is finding out what a disaster outsourcing is, the other Infraco - Metronet - is persisting with the same disastrous policy!

- defend jobs - stop outsourcing - defend pensions -

As we have reported previously in Tubeworker, Metronet has been waging war on its employees, through 'outsourcing' (reprivatising stuff that has already been privatised), 'reorganisation' (a