Pay

Pay awards and disputes

Dear Staff, Here's How Much We Pay You

Wasn't that nice of London Underground Ltd to send us all a letter telling us how much the company pays us? And what a coincidence that it just so happened to arrive just as the pay talks are kicking off in earnest.

Perhaps it would have been simpler to send us all a postcard saying "Don't you get...

Pay talks begin: whose belts should tighten?

No sooner had the preliminary discussions on a new pay deal for LU staff begun than the Chief Operating Officer got his tiny violin out and started tugging at our heartstrings about how terribly hard up the company is.

"We face a difficult financial climate ... Further pressure on our finances is...

Strike Threat Forces Management to Talk Pay Rise

For nearly two years, Waterloo & City line service control staff have been refusing overtime in pursuit of their entirely justified claim for higher pay to reflect the complexity of their work. Nothing doing. Management didn't care.

So they stepped it up. Balloted for strike action. Got a 100% Yes...

Where's Our Bonus?

LU workers have wondered, "where's our bonus?" for weeks. Instead of giving us a straight answer, LU has preferred to play mind games.

Was LU afraid that we'd use the £500 as a strike fund if it paid it earlier? Or did it want to keep the money back to bribe us not to strike?

LU has finally said...

Bonus Bribery?

LU have told staff we will get £300 for our efforts this year, according to the Customer Satisfaction Scores. Not only have we met and exceeded targets for the last two quarters, but our average for the year has been high enough to win us an extra £100.

Nobody was expecting this extra £100. We...

Pay Day Blues

Well, it's pay day today, and remarkably, the total seems to be the same as last pay day, despite 1 April having come and gone. Do they think we are fools?

OK, so the technical explanation is that each pay packet covers a pay period that runs up to a couple of weeks prior to actually handing us the...

Real-terms rise?

Some people are getting quite excited about RPI inflation figure of 3.7%, meaning we’ll get a 4.2% pay rise. Tubeworker hates to pour on cold water, but 0.5% above inflation isn't much of a real-terms rise. More comes in, but only because it will be going out faster! 0.5% will soon be wiped out...

£60K?

According to the Evening Standard, LU train drivers earn £61 thousand a year, which must come as news to most train drivers! Sloppy journalists have discovered this ‘news’ by including pensions and benefits into the wage. Tory MPs were denouncing us when they earn more and were caught fiddling...

Bonus Time!

How lovely, receiving confirmation that we reached the magic target to get our CSS bonus.

And we are sure it is entirely a coincidence that this good news arrived at just the time that management want us to accept that our Olympic bonus should be based on the same CSS system. The CSS system means...

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