If London Underground bosses plans go ahead nearly a thousand people will lose their job. This union is balloting for industrial action to stop these devastating cuts.
The diagram below shows the number of people in current roles and in the planned new role.
The RMT is balloting for industrial action as we want to stop these devastating cuts and changes.
This LUL 'stations info pack' document says "For Duty Station Managers, Station Control Room Assistants, and Station Assistant Multi-functionals, we propose that you will have the opportunity to apply for a new role" (page 14 of this pdf).
The RMT have recieved a new document which reveals more details of London Undergrounds cuts plan. This newly released document, attached below, is a 'Change Assurance Plan' which gives some further insight into what these cuts, if successful, could mean in health & safety terms .
The document is very low on detail of how the proposed changes to station staffing structure will impact on the driver grade. However, section 2.7 claims that there are no changes proposed to train operations.
As the Evening Standard heralded all-night running of the Tube in London, hidden in the small print were details of the most savage attacks on the jobs and conditions of staff, and on the service to passengers.
If we stop these devastating job cut plans nobody will need to be reassessed.
London Underground says that they plan for Station Assistant Multi Functional (ticket office workers) to either be moved into a 'Customer Service Agent' role, or to have the option to apply for 'Customer Service Supervisor.'
We believe that rather than cut staff, London Underground and its parent company Transport for London should:
We note and adopt the report of our Southern Sub-Committee.
Further, we note the press statement by Transport for London dated 26 November, stating that our industrial action ballot is ‘in response to plans unveiled last week to run parts of the Tube for 24 hours at weekends during 2015, and to make staff more visible at stations’.
We welcome the response from ASLEF, expressing its willingness to attend a meeting to discuss a joint campaign against driverless trains. We instruct the General Secretary to ensure that this meeting takes place as soon as practical, and to place a report in front of us.
London Transport Regional Council, branches and London Undergroundrepresentatives to be advised.
Tube union RMT has hit back at what it describes as “lies and dirty tricks” from the management side in the dispute over cuts to jobs and ticket offices that would rip-apart the safety regime, and threaten staffing, across the tube network.
In a message on its website, LU/TFL claims that RMT is;
“…..to ballot their members on London Underground (LU) in response to plans unveiled last week to run parts of the Tube for 24 hours at weekends during 2015.”