Eurostar cleaners rock-solid in strike action over pay, jobs and bullying

Submitted by Admin on 18 September, 2009 - 13:23

RMT CLEANERS working on the Eurostar contract for the Carlisle Group at St Pancras International are rock solid this morning in their support for a 48 hour strike which started at 21.59 hours last night.

The cleaners - who are fighting a pay freeze, a threat of redundancies, the introduction of Orwellian finger-printing machines and the victimisation of a union rep – have mounted a noisy mass picket at St Pancras International this morning.

LUL and TfL pay latest

Submitted by Admin on 17 September, 2009 - 16:59

Circular No. IR.275/09: RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2009, REDUNDANCIES AND BREACH OF AGREEMENTS - LUL and TfL

At a meeting of the LUL Company Council last week, the company’s pay offer was further discussed. There was no further movement by the employer and so their offer still stands as follows:

Year 1: 1.5% increase from 1st April 2009 Year 2: February 2010 RPI + 0.5% or 0.5% whichever is the greater from 1st April 2010

Support Carlisle Cleaners on Strike at Eurostar

Submitted by Admin on 17 September, 2009 - 12:27

The picket will be between St Pancras and Kings Cross, about 100 yards down from Euston Rd. The strike is for shifts that book on between21:59 hours on Thursday 17th September 2009 and 21:59 on Saturday 19th September 2009.

The main book-on times are 08.00 and 14.00, so a good time to be there is Friday 7.30 am and 13.30 and the same on Saturday. Shift start times are 2200; 0600; 0800; 1400; 1530 so there should be pickets in place before those times, if not all day.

Carlisle gives Cleaners 14.3% more! (But only to scabs!)

'RMT London Calling' September 2009 - Is This All You Are Worth?!

Submitted by Admin on 16 September, 2009 - 21:14

newsletter fron page22p. That's what London Underground's pay offer is worth to a Customer Services Assistant in year 2. The new issue of 'RMT London Calling' newsletter spells out the details of how miserly LUL's and TfL's pay offers are, and how poorly they compare to rises enjoyed by company directors and even by other workers.

There are also reports from Docklands Light Railway, the Woolwich ferry, the Victoria line 'five-rounders' dispute, and Boris Johnson's latest broken promise - on snow day pay.

Click '1 attachment' / file name to download it. Please print and distribute around London Transport workplaces.

Trip cock - cockup

Submitted by Joffe on 16 September, 2009 - 18:41

Bakerloo line drivers were subject to what can only be described as keystone cops style of management during the first day of last weekend’s shutdown. Seemingly making it up on the hoof, management instructed drivers to keep trains in service even when failing the trip cock tester. Apparently the requirement for a second person in the cab was sufficient to run a safe railway. This goes against all the basic principles we are taught when joining LUL! Week 1 Day 1 we are told safety is paramount.

The 2tone high tone Bakerloo Hokey Cokey

Submitted by Joffe on 16 September, 2009 - 13:53

Madness??? Whoever thought this up …..? When trains arrive on Stonebridge Park reception roads, drivers on the Bakerloo line are being instructed to cut the high tone whistle out. Then we have to cut it in. Then out. Then in Then shake it all about! All because depot staff are accidentally operating the high tone whistle in confined spaces. Not train operators doing it in error have you noticed.

The 2tone high tone Bakerloo Hokey Cokey

Submitted by Joffe on 16 September, 2009 - 13:52

Madness???
Whoever thought this up …..?
When trains arrive on Stonebridge Park reception roads, drivers on the Bakerloo line are being instructed to cut the high tone whistle out.
Then we have to cut it in.
Then out.
Then in
Then shake it all about!
All because depot staff are accidentally operating the high tone whistle in confined spaces.
Not train operators doing it in error have you noticed.