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BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TRAIN OPERATORS, PICCADILLY LINE - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)

Further to my previous Circular (IR/246/18, 1^st June 2018), the ballot concluded with members' voting as follows:-

Are you prepared to take strike action?

Number of individuals who were entitled to vote in the ballot:      420

Number of votes cast in the ballot:                                         298

Number of individuals answering “Yes” to the question:               285

BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, TRAIN OPERATORS

PICCADILLY LINE – LONDON UNDERGROUND

Further to previous correspondence, all Piccadilly Line Driver members are congratulated for the solid yes vote for both strike action and action short of a strike in this dispute. Following special Branch meetings, the National Executive Committee has considered this matter and taken the decision to call on you and your colleagues to take strike action by not booking on for any shifts that commence between:-

Jubilee South Branch News is the newsletter for workers on the Jubilee line, including station workers between Westminster and Stratford, train drivers at North Greenwich and Stratford, cleaners and caterers and controllers at SMD.

In this edition:

• RMT secures extra weekend rest days

• Got a meeting with your manager? Take your rep

• 8 days a week

• Code 36 spells danger

• Detrainment staff critical

• Data protection - know your rights

Yesterday evening , in what appears to be a power tool battery explosion, a major incident unfolded at Southgate station on the London Underground network.

The union understands that members of the public were hospitalised and we wish them a speedy recovery.

Station staff were once again fantastic in dealing with the initial incident and getting people to safety whilst undertaking a full speedy evacuation in very difficult circumstances.

Edgware Road Safety News has the latest important issues from your RMT H&S rep.

In this edition:

• We Still Don’t Know If This System Is Safe 
• HMS Familiarisation: Nothing Agreed Yet
• 50mph Target Speed Into HMS Dt! 
• Platform Strike 
• Beeping Noise 
• Issues From 30 May Meeting With Management
• Latimer Road Facilities/timings 
• 'Amnesty': It’s Ok To Make Mistakes

The newsletter is attached for you to download.

The June 2018 edition of Stations & Revenue News, focuses on the Elizabeth Line and the increase in workload and detrimental impact on work life balance it will bring if LU's plans to staff it are not improved.

Please download and distribute the newsletter in your wokplace and share it online.

We note the report from the Lead Officer regarding the proposal from management.

We congratulate our Members, Negotiations Team, Lead Officer and both Jubilee Line Branches on fighting for and achieving this proposal from the company that addresses the issues of the dispute by returning the rest days management took away as a consequence of their imposed roster which will now be returned under our current agreements.

Further, we instruct the General Secretary to write to the company advising them of our acceptance of the proposal and that we are no longer in dispute.

Upgrades News is for drivers on the sub-surface railway. It has all the latest information abouit signalling upgrades on the Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Circle and District Lines.  In this edition:

• Hammersmith ‘sidings’ concerns raised
• Target Speed Error 
• ATO train strikes platform
• ‘Myth busting’ meeting report 
• Signal abnormality discovered 

Please download and distribute in your workplace, or share online.

Jubilee News is a special newsletter for drivers on the Jubilee Line, produced by RMT activists.

In this edition:

• Management offer increase in Saturday rest days
  The RMT National Executive will debate and make a formal decision about the offer from LU early next week

• The detail of the offer from LUL​

• ACAS - An insider’s report

• ​RMT tells LU 'end the bullying culture' following ET loss

• Check your details

• Executive report: Ballot prepared for all LUL grades over unfair sacking

This NEC is appalled by London Undergrounds shocking handling of the Paul Bailey case.

We note that this travesty calls into question the integrity of the entire drugs and alcohol policy and testing regime. Due to the potential consequences of this sacking
being upheld at appeal in the event of this occurring we instruct the General Secretary to immediately prepare a ballot matrix for all grades on London Underground at all locations.

All London Underground branches and the London Transport Regional Council to be advised.