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SRT, Victoria Centre, King's Cross, Heathrow: strike on 25 November!

RMT members in four areas on LUL stations - Victoria Centre (Euston/Green Park), King's Cross, Heathrow (Heathrow Terminals, Hatton Cross, Hounslow West), and the Special Requirements Team (SRT, a department of mobile station staff which provides extra staffing resources for events, projects, etc.)...

"Fit for the Future Trains" is coming: fight the cuts!

It appears LUL has nearly finalised its plans for cuts the company wishes to make to agreements and working conditions on train side.

Tubeworker assumes this is the case because they have started a sham consultation. A presentation has been made looking at the 'problems' bosses seek to solve. In...

Wot, no running water?!

The cleaners' mess room at Elephant and Castle is currently without running water, meaning cleaners are having to fill buckets from elsewhere to clean dishes and crockery.

The local RMT safety rep is quite rightly pursuing the issue, ignoring the logic of outsourcing which claims that, as the...

Job cuts and attacks on terms and conditions will spread unless we stop them

We have known all along that, as part of the cuts TfL/LUL promised the government they'd make in exchange for bailout funding, staffing levels and agreements in every area of the company were under review. This wasn't idle speculation, bosses said so explicitly in talks with our unions.

The 600...

All out on 10 November, vote yes in the re-ballot!

We need to make our 10 November strike as strong as possible, shutting down the job as we have done on previous strike days. Members of other unions should refuse to cross RMT picket lines.

Tubeworker has consistently argued for an escalation of action beyond 24 hours, on the basis that, whilst our...

Station staff: no OT from 20-26 November!

RMT has called an overtime ban on stations from 20-26 November.

It's time-limited, timed to support members on three areas - King's Cross, Heathrow, and the Special Requirements Team (SRT) - where workers plan to take action to protest the imposition of new rosters and a new framework, in the case...

"Currently" no plans for pension reform?

Whenever we strike, we're sure to get a mewling employee bulletin from some top boss, telling us our strike is pointless and remonstrating with us to come to work. This time the communiqué, signed by Andy Lord, appends a nasty threat, darkly hinting that the strike might force the company to make...

Unite at TfL/LUL and RMT on London Overground to join 3 November strike

Unite members across TfL will join the strike on 3 November. Unite's action focuses on defence of the pension scheme, and will involve workers at Victoria Coach Station, Surface Operations, Network Management Control Centre, River Boat Services, Dial-a-Ride, CPOS, and Croydon Trams engineering and...

All out on 3 November, and let’s step up the fight!

We’re all out again on 3 November, striking for the sixth time this year in our fight to protect jobs, pensions, and conditions.

Our last strike was on 19 August, well over a month ago, so it’s good RMT has called more action to show the bosses we haven’t paused our fight. It’s also particularly...

Unite members reject TfL pay offer

Unite members working for TfL have rejected the company's insulting pay offer, by 92 per cent to eight per cent. RMT members had also previously rejected the offer. Unite is demanding an 8.4 per cent increase for 2022, and plans to move to a new industrial action ballot.

Unite's members at TfL work...

TfL appoints top bosses to oversee pension reform

Departing TfL commissioner Andy Byford has announced he has convened a team of top bosses to oversee pension reform. Despite stressing that there are "currently" no concrete proposals to reform the scheme, it was a condition of the funding settlement TfL accepted in August that pension reform be...

Outsourced workers win staff travel passes

5,000 outsourced cleaners, caterers, and security workers on London Underground will get staff travel passes from April 2023, the new financial year, after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan finally conceded to years of RMT campaigning. Khan has also said he will review sick pay arrangements, and the...

Wot, no ballot?

At a joint rally in defence of public transport in London with other TfL unions on 31 August, a TSSA official announced from the rostrum that they were preparing to ballot across TfL and LUL, over attacks on the pension scheme and other issues.

Great, and long overdue. TSSA has played a shabby role...

Solidarity with the London Overground strike

London Overground workers will be striking again on 1 and 5 October.

On 1 October, both drivers (Aslef) and station staff (RMT) will strike, along with outsourced revenue officers employed by the Carlisle agency (RMT). On 5 October, drivers in Aslef will strike for a further day.

It’s a shame both...

Timing next Tube strikes

There is ongoing discussion - in reps' meetings, union branch meetings, and most importantly in workplaces - about if and when RMT should launch further strikes in the dispute over pensions, job cuts, and conditions.

Since our last strike on 19 August, we've seen a funding settlement agreed that...

Event planning failure?

19 September was an impromptu bank holiday and day of mourning following the demise of the Queen and her subsequent funeral that morning. Most businesses were closed and of course those who were making additional journeys into London would be in a sombre mood, not out partying all evening.

ABM and the agency

AGS, the agency that cleaning contractor ABM occasionally uses to plug gaps in its staffing level, is advertising shifts at numerous stations in the days leading up to the Queen’s funeral.

In response to RMT pressure, ABM was quick to insist the overtime shifts had been offered to its own staff...

Carnival of understaffing...

At Oxford Circus during Notting Hill Carnival, there were just two cleaners on shift for a lot of the day. Unsurprisingly, they were completely run ragged.

LUL dispute: we must strike again!

Let’s announce dates as soon as possible, and let’s escalate beyond 24 hours. How about two days in September, three in October, four in November…?

LUL: prepare to fight on pay

Part of the funding settlement agreed between the Department for Transport and TfL says that future pay awards must “follow public sector pay policy.”

As TfL board debates our future... demonstrate 30 August!

The Transport for London board will meet on Tuesday 30 August to discuss whether to accept the £3.6 billion funding settlement from the Department for Transport.

Although the contents of the proposed settlement will, if accepted, have a profound impact on our working lives, and on the services we...

Night Tube strike solid

Night Tube station staff struck for the first time on 19 August.

The strike was well-supported amongst Night Tubers. The RMT's industrial power across the job - stations, trains, fleet, and elsewhere - ensured no Night Tube service ran at all.

This was the first time Night Tube station have struck...

LU pay: start the fight early!

Our pay deal on London Underground expires in April 2023. Our fight to get a decent settlement will be stronger and more effective if we start it as early as possible.

Cleaners meet to plan ballot

RMT London Transport Region has called a cleaners' campaign meeting for 25 August, from 11:00 at the Indian YMCA (W1T 6AQ).

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