Official circular - MAINTENANCE OPTIMISATION - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/15/4/)
Dear Colleagues,
A resolution was received from LU Fleet about an alarming policy change by management over the maintenance regime on trains. This was placed before the General Grade Committee who have made the following decision:-
DISMISSAL- K.MORTELL, TRAIN OPERATOR, WHITE CITY, (LUL/4/1)
Dear Colleague
I regret to advise you that the ballot to reinstate Brother Mortell must be rerun due to an administrative error With the Anti Trade Union laws being so incredibly restrictive we cannot risk the company challenging the previous ballot and declaring any industrial action called from it illegal. Therefore the safest course of action is to re run the ballot and I offer my sincere apologies to for this error.
TUBE UNION RMT today condemned a threat by London Underground to rip up an existing agreement on job protection as “blatant intimidation and provocation of members who are currently balloting for action over tube safety and the threat to 800 station-based staff posts.”
Gerry Duffy, LU’s Director of Employee Relations, has written to both RMT and TSSA, who are also balloting for action, demanding that the current democratic votes of members be halted or he will tear up negotiated agreements and procedures – paving the way for a jobs massacre across the tube that would impact on all staff and all unions
The next Stratford no.1 branch meeting will take place on Thursday 12th August from 5pm at the Leytonstone & District ex-Servicemens Club, Harvey Road, Leytonstone, E11 3BD.
It is approximately a two minute walk from Leytonstone underground station.
The next Morden & Oval branch meeting will take place on Wednesday 11th August from 5.30pm at The Wheatsheaf public house, 2, Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7PG.
It is situated next to Tooting Bec station.
The next Central Line West branch meeting will take place on Thursday 5th August from 4pm - 6pm at The Redan, 1, Westbourne Grove, W2 4UA.
The nearest tube stations are Bayswater and Queensway.
The next Hammersmith & City Line branch meeting will take place on Wednesday 4th August from 5pm at the Exmouth Arms, 1, Starcross Street, Euston, NW1 2HR.
The nearest tube stations are Euston and Euston Square.
London Transport Region held a training day for branch membership secretaries on 26 July. Thanks to everyone who came along and took part. The day seemed to go very well, and I hope everyone got something out of it.
As well as training the membership secretaries, we managed to also generate quite a few ideas and plans, as follows:
Regional Council to:
In April, RMT's London Transport Regional Council wrote to disabled people's organisations as part of our 'SOS: Staff Our Stations' campaign, alerting them to London Underground's planned job cuts and the difficulties that these will cause to disabled passengers. You can read our letter here. Several organisations representing disabled people have now sent the following letter to Mayor Boris Johnson, opposing the job cuts.
Dear Mr Johnson,