Pay
Inflation Up
Submitted on 19 February, 2010 - 11:28
Some people are getting quite excited about the rapidly-increasing inflation figures. After all, if the February RPI figure (published next month) is, say, 3.5%, then we will get a 4% pay rise.
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Bonus balls up – again!
Submitted on 23 January, 2010 - 12:02
It’s this time of year again and management once again are playing guessing games – will we get our new bonus or not?
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EDF Workers Win
Submitted on 8 January, 2010 - 11:39
Following a two-day RMT strike over the festive season, EDF Powerlink staff have won a 16% increase on overtime rates and a joint working party on pay, and have forced the company to drop plans to tak
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Weak Leadership from Unions in Pay Fight
Submitted on 2 December, 2009 - 16:42
It’s a good job that Tube workers and rank-and-file union reps are up for a fight about pay - because it does not look much like our union leaders are.
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Pay Fight Back On: Dust Off Those Picket Armbands!
Submitted on 7 October, 2009 - 12:44
It looks like the fight for a decent pay rise could be on again, after a big meeting of RMT reps yesterday voted unanimously to reject the offer and renew the campaign.
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The Bare-Faced Cheek Of It
Submitted on 18 June, 2009 - 10:16
Fresh from implying that we are 'greedy' for not wanting a pay cut, Boris Johnson has been embarrased by a deputy caught abusing the City Hall credit card for his own comforts.
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RPI? CPI? We Need a WCPI
Submitted on 4 May, 2009 - 13:59
Management insist on basing their pay 'offer' on the Retail Price Index (RPI). The unions argue (correctly) that at present, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) more accurately represents inflation as it affects working people.
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Wot No Paid Special Leave?
Submitted on 1 May, 2009 - 08:30
LUL management's latest ruse to punish staff is to dock your pay if you have a family emergency.
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Sauce for the Goose, Sauce for the Gander?
Submitted on 1 April, 2009 - 08:28
London MPs are to trouser a pay rise of more than 9% while our bosses tell us its 1% only followed by four more years of real-terms pay cuts for us.
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Will They Bribe Us With a Bonus?
Submitted on 20 March, 2009 - 17:38
Will we get £500 or £250 for our Customer Satisfaction Bonus? We've been asking as often as we have about our pay rise!
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Stability and Instability
Submitted on 10 March, 2009 - 13:56
Tubeworker has been pondering LUL management's ridiculous 'argument' that because we live in changeable economic times, we need the 'stability' of a five-year pay freeze/cut.
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LUL Pay Offer: Is This Some Sort Of Joke?
Submitted on 2 March, 2009 - 13:47
If so, it's not funny.
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EDF Powerlink workers will keep on striking!
Submitted on 3 February, 2009 - 14:24
Before Xmas we reported on EDF Powerlink workers' (the technicians who help supply the current to the Tube) fight for pay parity with day workers, which means they are demanding an extra £3 grand a year.
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Economic Crisis Means We Need A Bigger Pay Rise Not A Smaller One
Submitted on 19 January, 2009 - 15:10
It seems that some staff have got it into their heads that we shouldn't demand a decent pay rise this year because of the economic crisis.
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Pay: Don't Let It Drag On Again
Submitted on 17 January, 2009 - 13:45
If we are to win a decent pay rise this year, we need to break the bad habits of past years.
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Pay Claim - put a figure on it
Submitted on 1 December, 2008 - 20:59
The first round of pay talks is looming, and RMT has announced its claim, as follows:
Season of Goodwill?
Submitted on 24 November, 2008 - 11:41
So LUL management want some of us to work on Christmas Day but are only prepared to offer us double pay and one poxy day off in lieu which we would have got anyway?! Scrooge lives on, apparently.
Meeting To Plan The Fight
Submitted on 13 October, 2008 - 08:36
Don't forget tonight's RMT members' meeting, 6.30pm, Friends House. Discuss the pay claim and plan our defence of victimised activists and members.
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Cleaners' Victory Stalled
Submitted on 4 October, 2008 - 10:57
Cleaners employed by ICS and Initial are not receiving the London Living Wage, even though they are contrated by Metronet, who have promised it.
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Defending Ourselves From Economic Crisis
Submitted on 12 September, 2008 - 05:52
To see CBS poster workers and TubeLines standing up for inflation-plus pay rises last month showed the way forward for workers in LUL, TfL and others as we build towards a fight over next year's pay rise.
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Was RMT right to suspend the TubeLines strike?
Submitted on 21 August, 2008 - 08:04
RMT has suspended its strike action after TubeLines made the following two-year offer:
Year 1:
- 4.99% pay rise, backdated to 1st April 2008.
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CBS Outdoor Strike
Submitted on 8 August, 2008 - 16:25
Workers at CBS, the company who have the contracts for putting up advertising posters on the Tube, have gone on strike over pay and a list of injustices that have mounted over the years.
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TubeLines Strike Ballot: Vote Yes!
Submitted on 5 August, 2008 - 15:43
Funny how a company can make huge profits but still 'can't afford' to give its workers a decent pay rise. Or not so funny, if you work for TubeLines.
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Pay: The Fight Starts Now!
Submitted on 9 May, 2008 - 10:09
Our current pay deal on LUL runs out next April, but the fight for a decent new deal must start now.
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CSS Bonus - Dangling the Proverbial Carrot
Submitted on 18 April, 2008 - 08:18
LUL Employee communications released the CSS (Customer Satisfaction Survey) results for 2007/8 in an internal bulletin on the 10th April.
Wot No Bonus?
Submitted on 30 April, 2007 - 08:16
Our beloved leader Tim O'Toole has written to us again. Bless him for taking time out of his busy schedule to keep us informed of the state of play of our magnificent system.
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Pull the pay fights together
Submitted on 24 April, 2006 - 10:05
Meanwhile, TubeLines have settled for a two-year deal with a 4% rise this year.
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What's Wrong with Performance-Related Pay?
Submitted on 5 February, 2006 - 12:49
Employee Relations Director Gerry Duffy has given a few hints as to what might be coming our way in the upcoming pay negotiations.
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TubeLines pay claim
Submitted on 24 January, 2006 - 09:34
RMT has submitted its pay claim to TubeLines, and TubeLines has responded. So the opening skirmishes will begin.
RMT has asked for a one-year deal and a 'substantial' pay rise for staff. It is the general practice of the union not to put a figure on its pay claims. Tubeworker tends to think that it would be better if it did, so that the workforce knows what it is fighting for, and can see if the union is trying to sell it short. Which, we suspect, is why the union bureaucracy prefers the vague term 'substantial'!
RMT wins Tribunal for equal pay for AG1
Submitted on 8 December, 2005 - 22:07
At Stratford Tribunal on 2 December, a decision was given that awards an AG1 six years back pay on an equal pay case that lasted three days. After hearing evidence that brings the whole question of performance-related pay into question, the Tribunal refused LUL the right to appeal a decision that could send shock waves around the business world.
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