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This is a historic edition, coming after the most succesful stations strike action ever seen on London Underground.
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Tube staff out in force across the network in fight for jobs and safety
General Secretary Mick Cash said; "Our members are out in force across London Underground this morning in the fight for jobs and safety. The strike action is being solidly supported on every line, at every station and on picket lines right across the Tube network.
"This action has been forced on us by savage cuts to jobs that have reduced London Underground to an under-staffed death trap at a time of heightened security and safety alert.
RMT warns TFL to stop peddling "dangerous lies" about level of tube services operating during strike.
General Secretary Mick Cash said; "It does no one any favours for TFL to openly lie about how many Tube services are running. It just piles more people into stations that are already dangerously over crowded and ramps up the risk of a major crushing incident.
"TFL should stop peddling their fantasy world of services that are operating when the truth is that London is on an almost total shutdown.
RMT Station staff strike Monday Jan 9 Picket lines
The following locations are where the RMT will be holding picket lines and demos in support of our demand for more station staff, the reopening of station control rooms, the withdrawal of the CSA2 grade in favour of 1 CSA grade on one rate of pay and the reversal of ticket office closures.
Please make every effort to support a picket line on Monday.
Brixton – 0445 onwards
Paddington – 0500
Kings Cross – 0445
London Bridge – 0500
Victoria – 0500
Dear RMT members
Yesterday I reported late in the afternoon that the Talks had failed. At approx 6pm last night I found out via the BBC that TSSA had without discussing it with our General Secretary, or Myself approached LUL for talks today .
Dear RMT Members
Today myself and senior RMT reps, The TSSA and LUL at met ACAS on the above dispute for the 3rd day this week. Despite the strong effort of our Negotiation team we were not able to make any progress on the key issues of the loss of 838 jobs, displacements and Transfer arrangements, destaffing of control rooms, abuse of CSA2 grades at the expense of CSA1 and roster balance.
LUL Station Staffing & Safety Arrangements , Post Implementation of Fit for the Future. ACAS Update Thursday 5th January 2017
Dear RMT Members,
Today myself and senior RMT reps, The TSSA and LUL met at ACAS for the second day on the above dispute.
Despite my request yesterday to make a radically improved offer and a whole day of conciliation at ACAS no improvements were forthcoming.
LUL have stated they want to return tomorrow for talks, and we of course are available. If there are developments I will report back.
LUL Station Staffing & Safety Arrangements, Post Implementation of Fit for the Future. ACAS Update from RMT Regional Organiser John Leach
Dear RMT Members
RMT members working on London Underground stations are taking strike action today because London Underground management will not take the action needed to address a crisis on our tube stations.
The International Business Times has researched LU's social media feeds and identified over 80 station closures in December due to shortage of staff.
LUL COO, Steve Griffiths, blaames the closures on "staff not booking on for overtime shifts". Nothing to do with 838 job cuts then!
Download the article for a full list of closures.