Jobs/Pay/Justice Dispute 2009

The all-grades battle for decent pay, against job cuts, and to stop management bullying - in the face of management using the economic recession as an excuse for a clampdown.

What Action Should We Take?

Usually, when we are voting for strike action, workers tend to just wait for union head offices to tell us what action we will be taking. But it's our strike, so we are entitled to an opinion - and many of us have ideas and views on the subject.

Most people know now that a 24-hour strike will not...

Will They Bribe Us With a Bonus?

Will we get £500 or £250 for our Customer Satisfaction Bonus? We've been asking as often as we have about our pay rise! It makes you wonder whether the bonus was invented to distract our attention away from management's nightmare issue - the unions' fight for a pay rise.

We're waiting for the last...

Vote Yes to Defend Your Pay, Jobs and Rights!

It is excellent news that RMT is pressing ahead with a ballot for industrial action. The union is balloting all grades in LUL - stations,revenue, trains, service control, admin, managers, ex-Metronet, the lot - and its members on TfL too. The ballots should lead to strike and other action over jobs...

Stability and Instability

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. In fact, the opposite is true: the unpredictability of the economy is a very good reason to negotiate pay each year, rather...

RMT to Ballot over Jobs and Pay?

RMT is likely to hold a strike ballot soon over jobs and pay, after its regional council unanimously endorsed three resolutions from branches calling for action.

Quite right too. It is particularly good to see the union considering action in time for the date our pay rise is due, rather than...

Defend 'Jobs for Life'

LUL seems intent on reneging on the "jobs for life" deal that strike action forced it to concede back in 2001.

That year, at the height of the battle to stop PPP (the story of which is told here and here), ASLEF and RMT took strike action together, at one point defying the anti-union laws. The...

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