Leaked Tube Staffing Plan Raises Alarm Over Safety

Submitted by Peter on 24 February, 2010 - 23:40

SOSTUBE UNION RMT today revealed leaked details of an internal London Underground management report titled “Minimum Staffing Levels” which the union is warning would lead to the loss of hundreds of station jobs, hacking back to the absolute bare bones staffing levels agreed in the aftermath of the Kings Cross fire in 1987. Even Victoria, the busiest station on the underground with 76 million passengers, could see its current twelve staff cut to just two during “degraded” operation.

Leaked LUL Document Exposes Plans To Cut Front Line Jobs

Submitted by Peter on 24 February, 2010 - 22:44

Newsletter 'Across The Tracks' have obtained an internal LUL document revealing plans to cut minimum staff levels at stations across LUL.

The Newsletter contains the following:

  • Information on how staffing levels may be cut
  • Managements possible strategy to cut costs
  • Why minimum numbers of staff were introduced and there impact on safety
  • How, through solidarity, we can strongly oppose such plans

See ATT's website for more information or read the full story to view the newsletter, or download it.

Training: Auditing and Increasing RMT Membership in Your Area

Venue: ex-Services Club, Harvey Road, Leytonstone - map here.

This workshop is a must for all workplace RMT representatives, and for branch officers. We are more effective at everything we do if we sign up as many members as possible and keep our membership information up-to-date. this is especially true since recent legal rulings have placed even greater demands on unions when it comes to information.

This training workshop will look at:

Special RMT Seminar on 'Organising, Militancy and Revitalisation' - Case study of the RMT

leafletVenue: Bloomsbury Baptist Church, near Tottenham Court Road Tube Station

LU Engineering has organised a seminar on 'Organising, Militancy and Revitalisation' Case study of the RMT - looking at the relationship between union militancy, effectiveness in delivering barginaing gains, membership growth and union revitalisation.

Speakers include Bob Crow (RMT General Secretary) and Alex Gordon (RMT National President), along with Professor Ralph Darlington of Salford University.

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download a leaflet advertising this event.

Ealing Council Threatens to Remove Acton Green Bus Stand

Submitted by johntube on 20 February, 2010 - 22:26

On Tuesday 26th January 2010 at Ealing Council's cabinet meeting it was decided by the cabinet that due to the limited progress made to date with their "earlier conciliatory approach" to Transport for London and London United, to address the problems that arise through the poor management of bus operations at the route 94 bus stand in Acton Green, it authorised council officers to remove the bus stand. The council will also write again to TfL and the bus operator London United to try to progress this issue, express concern over the issue and insist upon urgent action.

Overtime Improvements on the Bakerloo!

Submitted by Nattrass on 20 February, 2010 - 14:37

T/Ops on the Bakerloo Line could not believe their luck, when in an all too rare show of altruism, management swept away the existing way of booking overtime and brought in a new improved system.

Openly weeping with joy an Bakerloo T/Op told us:

"The previous system was bonkers, and now thanks to Bakerloo management we don't have to endure the drudgery of - finishing late - picking up a phone and informing the desk DMT - then hanging up."

A Bakerloo manager informed us:

Stratford No 1 Branch Minutes, January 14th 2010

Submitted by Peter on 20 February, 2010 - 03:49

Attendees: M Mujahid, J McConville , A Thomson, G Brown, A Finney, T O’Neill, R Millhouse, D Fitzpatrick,
S Sivadasan, A Malik, M Sharpe, A Showler, M Showler, S Melnyk, D Dean, J Latona, D Pittman, L Kanzaria ,M Melville, M Parker, B Witham ,C Daniel, C Bluett.

Apologies: J Booth, M Cronin, P Heyes.

1710hrs Meeting opens

Minutes adopted: Prop A M. Sec D Dean

1 Matters arising from previous minutes:

(A) AGM Delegate, Asghar Malik: