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RMT spent ten hours in talks with London Underground management yesterday (Monday 8 June). We made many proposals and offered many opportunities for management to settle our dispute with them, but sadly, at the end of a long day all London Underground offered was more talks.
Please see attached press release by TSSA and UNISON. The quotes from Gerry Doherty (TSSA) and Dave Prentis (UNISON) are a bit rich considering that in this area they have been in the process of shedding jobs since September 2008! Hundreds have already gone without a mention from these General Secretaries. Why the interest now?
TSSA News Release 8 June 2009 Tfl wastes millions on consultants while thousands face sack UNISON and the TSSA today slammed TfL for wasting millions on consultants while attempting to fill a £2.4billion budget black hole by sacking thousands of staff.
Join Bob Crow and other RMT members in a show of support for our industrial action.
Gather outside Liverpool Street station.
Here is London Underground's reply to the letter that your Regional Organiser sent to him objecting to the company deducting staff's pay or leave on the day of heavy snow ...
Impact of Adverse Weather on 2 February 2009
I am writing in response to continuing demands for further discussion of LU's approach at a recent Stations Functional Council meeting.
What they say ... Boris: I won't dock pay of snowed-in Tube staff after all... Mayor Boris Johnson today backtracked on a decision not to pay Tube staff who failed to turn up for work because of the snow. ... A spokesman for Mr Johnson said ... "The Mayor has absolutely no intention of penalising anyone who failed to get to work due to last week's exceptional weather." Evening Standard, 9 February
What they do ... Dock London Underground workers' pay or leave.
Join our protest outside Mayor's Question Time at City Hall (nearest station: London Bridge).
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Yesterday, RMT met with London Underground bosses to discuss the issues which drove us to organise industrial action for next week - jobs, pay and justice.
Your RMT representatives at the meeting were Steve Hedley, Olly New and Janine Booth.
After hours of talks, London Underground management offered us a choice of two pay deals:
Was any one else extremely vexed at the content of our new MD's letter, not only does the tosser use public money to send out individual letters to all LU staff but he also has the cheek to slag off this Unions integrity and does this by spouting loads of lies.
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TUBE UNION RMT have confirmed that talks on the issues at the heart of the dispute on the tube will take place tomorrow – Friday 5th June – at 12 noon
RMT members at both London Undergound and TfL have voted to strike from 18.59 hrs next Tuesday – 9th June – in separate disputes on pay, job cuts and bullying.
This morning RMT issued a call for talks. The union has been contacted by the management side and the talks are scheduled for tomorrow at noon.
Bob Crow, RMT General Secretary, said: