Stations 35-Hour Week 2004-6

The struggle for the long-awaited 35-hour week for station staff, and how the unions failed to stop it bringing staffing cuts with it.

Stations: Keep Up The Fight

LUL is endangering staff and passengers with its station staff cuts. It is still stubbornly refusing to run proper safety checks on the new rosters. The company is digging its heels in, even though RMT said that it would suspend the strikes if the company suspended the imposition of the rosters and...

New leaflet for the public

Click here for an updated leaflet to give out to the public on Sunday and Monday's picket lines.

This time, it's not just the text, it's downloadable.

Leaflet for the public

It is important that RMT explains to the public why we are striking. Passengers have an interest in supporting our action, because we are defending staffing levels and safety. But despite this, the typical biased media are misrepresenting the facts. Sadly, the union is not doing enough to tackle...

Tube strike report - Saturday evening

As of about 7pm, the BBC is reporting the following stations closed: Barbican, Borough, Bounds Green, Bow Road, Caledonian Road, Cannon Street, Clapham North, Clapham South, Covent Garden, East Ham, Edgware Road - Bakerloo Line Station, Elm Park, Goodge Street, Hampstead, Holloway Road, Hyde Park...

Frustrations of a Union Rep (Part 2)

Well it's New Year's Eve and the day of the strike.Up at 06.30 and have arranged to meet a RMT industrial Rep from another group and head down for the leafleting campaign starting at Functional Council Offices.
So 5 of us are travelling down and it's whilst we are at Kings Cross we receive a garbled...

The Frustrations of a Union Rep.

So we have reached stalemate and the strike is on tomorrow.Amid posturing from both sides no progress has been made and we have strike action on New Year's Eve.This strike is supposed to be a major event,the RMT Executive have been proclaiming an overwhelming mandate for strike action however on the...

Tube workers to strike against station staffing cull

London Underground station staff have delivered a whopping Yes vote to industrial action in defence of staffing levels, and will strike for 24 hours on New Year’s Eve and again eight days later.

The ballot result was as follows:

For strike action:

  • 1,327 votes (84.6%) in favour
  • 241 (15.4%) against

Fo...

TSSA big cheeses: Out of order

Many rank-and-file TSSA members want to fight the staffing cuts. Perhaps they are sick of being told to scab by their union, and realise that if we are united, and take solid action, then we can win.

So - we hear - they got their branch to pass a resolution asking for the TSSA to go into dispute...

Station staffing cuts: into dispute at last

Finally, RMT and London Underground are officially in dispute.

The whole year has been spent going through a process of drafting and re-drafting rosters, with management's drafts attacking staffing levels at many locations. Of course, the union had to go through this process - the members had voted...

Will LUL try to steamroll through new rosters?

The negotiations over the station staff shorter working week went to directors' level last week.

The RMT is the only union fighting for an improvement in the re-rostering for the whole combine. An RMT reps' meeting on 2 November mandated the Regional Organiser and the functional council reps to...

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