Full-time station staff are today receiving letters from LUL informing us of the outcome of the location preferencing process.
It looks like around 1,000 staff are to be displaced to locations where they do not want to work - and some are even finding themselves working further away from home than they do already! The reality of FftFS is now slapping people hard in the face.
For the larger number who will work in the area they preferenced, life will not be rosy. They may be 'covering down', they may work there only temporarily before being displaced somewhere else. And as we already know from the rosters, they will be expected to work harder, for more passengers, alongside fewer colleagues, doing extra duties, for no extra - and in some cases, for less - money.
And spare a thought for the invisible part-time staff. LUL has not even asked them where they want to work yet, let alone told them! Part-timers are left feeling that they will be slotted into whatever gaps remain - that's if part-time posts even exist in the grades and areas they want to work. Sadly, part-timers appear to be invisible to the unions as well as to management - union leaflets seem to assume that everyone is getting their location letters, when in fact, only full-timers are.
Station staff are now seeing LUL's "changes" (the euphemism for "cuts") being implemented, with no sign of action from the unions. Unless the unions (let's face it, RMT) call action very soon (before the general election would be good), then any eventual action will look like a hopeless afterthought.