2023/4 pay negotiations drag on on the Elizabeth Line, with another meeting scheduled for early September. Customer service grades overwhelmingly rejected the current offer of a 5% pay rise, plus some tweaks to annual leave entitlement and a non-consolidated bonus for the CEA grade.
RMT gave no...
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The impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events, are mounting - internationally...
From 1 October all existing car parking for Acton Town District line drivers and REW Acton Works will be removed. RMT is now balloting over the issue. The new and very expensive housing development on Bollo Lane had parking for staff rejected at the planning stage. Management chose not to appeal...
New starter CSA2s on stations are coming out of Ashfield House with a CSA1 license, after just a few weeks of training.
The additional license means they can be used to cover CSA1 duties straight away. No-one should begrudge CSA2s, the lowest-paid grade on stations, the opportunity to earn a bit...
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told an LBC journalist that he would be prepared to conduct live, televised negotiations with the government, saying, "Let's get it in the open [...] The RMT and the trade unions always turn up for any debate. I’ve debated with government ministers in the past on the...
August 2023 saw 98 station closures due to staff shortages. The same month in 2019 saw just 12.
What’s happened since? LUL has cut around 600 frontline positions from stations. This is the consequence.
Many closures were just for a short time, but a station being closed for even 15 minutes can...
Outsourced ISS staff in the DLR will strike again on 12 and 14 September, as their fight for decent pay goes on.
These workers have struck several times in recent months but bosses are yet to make a satisfactory offer.
It’s good that the dispute is continuing but if the pattern of 48-hour...
Network Rail has withheld annual bonuses from staff who participated in strikes in the national dispute from June 2022.
Bosses have been explicit that the £300 bonus is a prize for scabbing: “Our position was made very clear: any discretionary payments would focus on those who continued to support...
Network Rail workers at Cardiff S&T (Signalling & Telecommunications) Depot will launch sustained strikes throughout September and October, as they attempt to push back the imposition of a worse roster.
RMT has called the imposition a "breach of national rostering agreements".
Strikes will begin...
Workers at Unipart Rail in Crewe, which provides engineering services for infrastructure, signalling, and rolling stock, are striking from 29 August to 1 September.
The workers have rejected the company’s latest 4.25% pay offer, which RMT has described as “derisory”.
It’s good they’re kicking...
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