London Underground Ltd

We note that this morning, LUL announced:

• that every ticket office will close by 2015
• that nearly one thousand jobs on stations will go, with a net loss of 750 jobs
• that stations will be staffed when trains are running, which suggests that they may not have Supervisors present and may no longer be staffed when trains are not running at night
• a thoroughgoing restructuring of station staffing, with all job roles changing and staff being re-evaluated for their own jobs

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said:

“No matter how this is dressed up by Boris Johnson and his officials, today’s announcement is all about slashing £270 million from the annual London transport budget and the proposed cuts will decimate staffing levels and hit the most vulnerable users of tube services the hardest. The mayor must believe he is some sort of magician if he thinks he can slash a thousand jobs and still run safe services when everyone knows that staffing has already been cut to the bone while passenger demand continues to rise.

Keep upto date and get involved as we prepare to fight any job cuts announced today.

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As soon as we know London Underground bosses proposals, we will be announcing it on Facebook and Twitter.

The Facebook page set up late last night, now has over 300 fans this morning.

There has already been a lot of coverage in the press about RMT's proactive pledge to tackle any London Underground cuts head on. We've selected a few of the stories in the news.

• Mayor watch

  RMT warns of “unprecedented” action ahead of Tube staffing announcement

Now you can show your support as the 'Every Job Matters - Defend London Underground Jobs' campaign gets under way. This 'Twibbon' will make it easy for you to show you are against cuts on London Underground on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Simply sign in to either Facebook or Twiiter then click on this link - https://twibbon.com/Support/every-job-matters

TUBE UNION RMT warned today that they have been notified by London Underground that a major announcement on jobs, services and safety cuts is due to made to senior union representatives at 9am tomorrow – Thursday 21st November.

The announcement was trailed by tube boss Mike Brown at a recent meeting of the London Assembly where he confirmed that ticket offices, station and platform staffing and other safety critical posts would be threatened in response to £225 million annual cuts imposed on TFL in the Government Spending Review.

The Evening Standard ran an article today on the top earners at London Underground. Managing Director Mike Brown it states earned £476,00. TfL Commissioner Peter Hendy meanwhile earned £652,000 - 33 times that of one of TfL's lowest wage earners on £20k. If you take into account contracted workers, at the bottom of the wage pile such as cleaners and canteen staff, that difference in wage grows even further.

We note and adopt the report of our Southern Sub-committee.

We welcome the resolution from our Jubilee South branch, and support its proposals. We therefore instruct the General secretary to:

1. Organise a public meeting in defence of London Underground jobs, preferably in conjunction with Action for Rail, and involving disability access to transport pressure groups such as Transport for All, and supportive MPs and GLA members.

• Re-grading of waterloo & city line service control staff – london underground.

We note the correspondence from London Underground Ltd dated 15 November 2013. We instruct the General Secretary to reply, pointing out that our ballot is for action short of strike action, not for strike action as stated in the letter, and that our lead officer will attend the suggested meeting at a mutually-convenient time.

A report of this meeting is to be placed in front of us. London Transport Regional Council and branches to be advised.