59 Jobs Saved - Take Action to Save More!

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So, the extensive consultation on LUL's ridiculous draft BNS/rosters - y'know - the ones that cut staff to frighteningly inadequate levels - has led to a whole 59 jobs being restored. Added to 56 we saved last year, that's 115 in total. Instead of culling 953 jobs, LUL now intends to cut "only" 838.

It's not enough! Not nearly good enough. The big majority of stations will see no jobs 'put back' whatsoever, and the lucky few will get a tiny number which will not restore the staffing level that they need.

Why such a small number of jobs restored? Is it because the stations don't need those jobs? Or because union reps' arguments were not convincing enough? No.

This is what happens when we don't put pressure on management by taking industrial action. Management do not care about adequate staffing levels, about convincing arguments, about what's right. They care about where they are feeling pressure from - us taking action, or their driving motivation to spend less getting us to do more. Since the unions stopped taking industrial action, the company has felt confident to pretty much have things its own way.

It is only the concern that we may yet take further action that has led the company to restore any jobs at all. So let's make its fears come true!

Tubeworker would have preferred renewed industrial action much earlier this year - and had this happened, we would have already won many more jobs back. But there is still the chance to fight, and no time to waste in doing so. The simple equation is that the more pressure we put on, the more jobs we will win back. And the more jobs we win back, the more bearable our workload and rosters will be.

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