800 Job Cuts: Do The Maths!

Submitted by Admin on 26 April, 2010 - 09:56

Whichever grade you work in, 800 fewer jobs on stations would mean …

  • 800 fewer people paying in to the TfL pension fund + 800 fewer employer contributions paid in = a more fragile pension fund for all of us
  • 800 fewer staff available to assist you in an emergency
  • The same amount of work being done by 800 fewer people
  • 800 fewer staff helping passengers - including your friends and family - around the system
  • 800 fewer posts for you to transfer into if you need redeployment or want a career change

'Staff Our Stations': campaign at Liverpool Street

Submitted by Admin on 26 April, 2010 - 07:16

Around 15 RMT members and supporters dished out hundreds of leaflets to Liverpool Street passengers on Friday lunchtime, explaining London Underground's plans to cut staff and ticket office service at their station.

All 500 leaflets were taken by passengers, many eager to read about the threat and support our campaign against it, and many of whom signed our petition:

Detraining On Your Own - Proposed Rule Change

Submitted by Peter on 23 April, 2010 - 19:09

A proposed change to the rule book, dated the end of last year, suggests that train operators could detrain on their own if a train is stalled without communications in a tunnel for more than half an hour.

The proposal document details how you should walk ahead of the customers making efforts to ensure they are all following and get them to pass on information amongst themselves about trip hazards. At points using telephone wires to turn of traction current. When you get to the next station get staff assistance if this is possible. This would suggest that it may not be possible to find staff at a section 12 station.

Download the full document to make up your own mind about whether it is safe and what it means for the future of staffing levels on stations were it to be implemented.

Emergency Resolution: Emergency Right to Work Conference

Submitted by Admin on 23 April, 2010 - 10:01

This resolution, submitted as an emergency resolution by LU Fleet and seconded by Jubilee South & East London Line, was carried unanimously by the April meeting of the Regional Council:

1. We note with concern the pre-election commitment of the leaders of all three major parties that public services will be cut in order to fund the public budget deficit.

2. We deplore the attacks made by David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Lord Adonis together with the right wing media on those workers, such as the BA cabin crew, trying to defend their rights, conditions and pay.

RMT Condemns Takeover Of Arriva By Deutsche Bahn

Submitted by Peter on 22 April, 2010 - 20:02

THE £1.59 BILLION takeover of the Arriva transport group was condemned today by Britain’s biggest specialist transport union as another worrying step towards the creation of a pan-European private transport monopoly.

RMT will be seeking urgent meetings with DB and its newly acquired subsidiaries in order to safeguard the jobs and interests of its members.

Scandal Of Tube Bosses On Huge Salaries Who Want To Slash Station Staff

Submitted by Peter on 22 April, 2010 - 19:42

A study by RMT of Transport for London’s latest accounts reveals that the number of managers earning between £70,000 and £99,000 had more than doubled to nearly 800 – which matches the number of front-line station staff that Tube bosses want to axe.

EVER MORE London Tube bosses are being paid telephone-number salaries while hundreds of front-line staff face the axe, the RMT union charges today.

Letter to disabled people's organisations: Staff Our Stations!

Submitted by Janine on 21 April, 2010 - 20:06

I have written to over 50 disabled people's organisations in and around London about London Underground's proposed job cuts. Read the letter below ...

I am writing on behalf of the RMT trade union to alert you to London Underground’s plan to cut 800 station staff posts and to severely reduce its ticket office opening hours. I believe that this move will seriously reduce the service that London Underground offers its passengers, and will have a particularly adverse effect on disabled passengers.

Non-payment of London Underground Pay Rise

Submitted by Admin on 21 April, 2010 - 12:09

Today is London Underground pay day, and staff have been shocked to discover that their pay does include the 4.2% rise that should have applied from 1 April. After a long-running dispute last year, the pay deal was agreed in December, so London Underground has had plenty of time to arrange for the year 2 rise to be paid on time.

RMT suggests that staff may wish to submit a grievance, and recommends the following wording ...

Grievance to Employing Manager