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Thales pay fight

RMT reps are in pay negotiations with Thales, a signalling and communications system contractor with numerous contracts on TfL/LUL. The company's pay offer is 7% for 2023, or 8% for those earning £30k, and 5.5% for 2024.

The union has rightly told Thales the offer is not good enough, and strikes...

RMT moves to ballot in ABM

RMT has declared a dispute with cleaning contractor ABM over its failure to follow the collective bargaining machinery agreed with the union. Part of this relates to ABM's imposition of "Project Lean", a restructure that has seen dozens of cleaners displaced from their work locations.

Although...

Cleshar workers suspend strikes (for now) as bosses budge

Engineering workers employed by the contractor Cleshar on the East London Line, part of London Overground, suspended a strike planned for 12 October, after Cleshar upped its pay offer and made proposals for reducing working hours.

The revised offer doesn't fully meet union demands, though, so the...

Running for cover

There seems to be a bit of an epidemic across stations recently of managers refusing to cover all duties, with some going as far as to designate certain duties "non-critical" and therefore not requiring coverage at all!

With the cuts made since the start of the year, many stations are already...

5%? No way!

LUL has now made its "full and final offer" for 2023-4 pay to the unions. It's a 5% increase, backdated to April 2023. The offer contains no concessions on any of the unions' wider claims around terms and conditions, most of which LUL has dismissed as "unaffordable".

The company also proposes to...

LUL reballot: vote yes, push for strikes

It's that time again, when we're required by anti-strike legislation to re-ballot, by post, to renew our mandate for industrial action. RMT is re-balloting LUL members in the "jobs, pensions, and agreements" dispute.

Tubeworker encourages all readers who are RMT members to vote yes/yes to strikes...

TOC railworkers renew strike mandate

Members of the RMT union at all 14 of the Train Operating Companies (TOCs) involved in the dispute over pay and conditions have yet again, renewed the mandate for industrial action.

Turnouts were above 65% in more than half the TOCs. The lowest was 53%, at Govia Thameslink Railway. The highest was...

Elizabeth line: "the best we can get"?

Pay-talk fatigue is setting in across the Elizabeth line, as bosses come back to the table with a few sweeteners. An enhanced Sunday rate, night allowance and extra day of annual leave are being offered on top of the basic 5% pay rise.

When presenting the offer, reps say it is the best we will get...

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