Defending jobs

Dear Colleagues,

EXTENDED TRAIN PREPARATION SCHEDULE – LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/10)

Further to my previous Circular (IR/112/19, 20th March 2019), the ballot has concluded with members’ voting as follows:-

Are you prepared to take strike action?

Number of individuals who were entitled to vote in the ballot: 1162

Number of votes cast in the ballot: 743

Number of individuals answering “Yes” to the question: 662

Number of individuals answering “No” to the question: 80

Nine to one vote for strike action by over a thousand key London Underground staff

TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that over a thousand key London Underground maintenance and engineering staff have voted by around nine to one for both strike action and action short of a strike in a dispute over the hacking back of train preparation and inspection schedules which the union warns would have a devastating impact on both service reliability and public safety.

The staff work at tube fleet maintenance depots right across Greater London.

**URGENT** for members in affected areas:
Track Access Control, Power Control, Service Control, LUCC, Skills Development, Waste, Pumps, Stations Buildings & Civils and Signals Incidents

TFL/LUL TRANSFORMATION (LUL/15/4)

Official Circular No: IR/125/19 29th March 2019

Dear Colleagues,

The RMT has submitted a Freedom of Information request that has revealed that stations were left unstaffed on at least 863 occasions last year, totalling 7490 hours.

This comes in spite of London Underground's promise following the much hated 'Fit for the Future' job cuts plan that all stations would be staffed during traffic hours.

- Read the attached leaflet for further information

London Underground announced plans today (Tuesday 26th March) to cut over 100 jobs in their latest round of 'Transformation'. These cuts are being made in multiple areas including, Track Access, Trainers, LUCC, Power and Waste Services.

On Monday 18th March, RMT reps from several Functional Councils (MATS, Service Control, Engineering, Fleet) were told that plans for further reorganisation on London Underground would begin on Monday 25th March. We were not given any further information until yesterday (21st March) when we were invited to attend a large number of staff briefings in different areas of the company.

Dear Colleagues,

SUBJECT: TFL TRANSFORMATION

That we note the report on file from the Lead Officer; that the company are steaming ahead trying to ride roughshod over our Transplant members with
Transformations job cuts.

The company has not only failed to consult the union properly; but have breached the Main Agreement which no union worth its salt would tolerate.

SUBJECT: STAFFING LEVELS – ABM (LONDON UNDERGROUND CONTRACT)

That we note the report from our Lead Officer that the union is in receipt of a letter from ABM that now clarifies the headcount on the LUL contract; stating that the headcount is 2650, on top of their assurances that there will be no redundancies or job cuts.

Jubilee South News is the newsletter for tube workers, from activists in the Jubilee South branch.

In this edition:

• Dust up on the Jubilee Line
• If Red Tabards are the answer whatever was the question?
• Assaulted at work and charged by the BTP, defended by the RMT 
• Say hello wave goodbye

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