LUL management have issued the following bulletin today. It is incredibly cheeky ...
RMT strike - latest The RMT leadership has now agreed to enter discussions with us on pay as part of a London Underground Company Council meeting tomorrow to which all our Unions have been invited. We welcome this change of heart and have always made clear that we’re ready to meet with the RMT anytime, anywhere.
TUBE UNION RMT today called on the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and his senior tube bosses, to “get out of the bunker” and open meaningful talks ahead of the 48 hour tube strikes which will start at 18.59 hours next Tuesday, 9th June.
It is now a week since RMT announced the strikes after receiving a massive mandate for action from members at London Underground and TfL. All preparations for the strikes are now in place and the support is rock solid.
Venue: Twelve Pins pub, next to Finsbury Park station.
A meeting for everyone who wants to support Underground and TfL workers in our fight for jobs, pay and justice.
Boris, the bosses and the Evening Standard are already working overtime to turn public opinion against us. We need your support to help ensure that Londoners see our side of the story too.
So whether you are a trade unionist, a climate campaigner, a socialist, a passenger, or just a human being with a sense of justice, please come along and help make plans to support our fightback.
Here is a list of what LUL and TfL pay their managers. That is the same LUL that offers its staff just 1% this year and RPI+0.5% for the next 4 years, and the same TfL that has not yet even tabled an offer.
Hypocrites? Judge for yourself ...
TUBE UNION RMT today slammed senior tube bosses for “rank hypocrisy” on pay as figures from Transport For London’s annual report showed that 123 managers are now earning more than £100,000 a year.
Those same managers have been leading the assault on RMT members who have voted to strike over a five year pay deal which would almost certainly amount to a pay cut well into the next decade and over plans to impose compulsory redundancies.
This resolution, submitted by LU Fleet and Piccadilly & District West branches, was passed unanimously at the July meeting of the Regional Council.
The RMT has always taken a firm stand against privatisation and contracting out of work. We should step up our campaign for all infrastructure work, cleaning, catering and other work associated with London Underground to be integrated into LUL and the staff currently employed taken in house on LU pay and conditions.
Following the suspension of safety reps (Jim Harrington and Clive Steadman's) email facilities on London Underground, the Stations & Revenue Safety Council has produced an open letter to all Health & Safety reps. Please click on the attachment to download a copy.
ATTENDANCE
From your Regional Organiser, Steve Hedley.
Dear brothers and sisters
I feel compelled to write to you to answer some very serious distortions of the truth made not only by management but also by some members of other trade unions.
Firstly, however, I will begin by praising in the highest possible terms the ASLEF rank-and-file drivers on the Victoria line who have fought beside our members to demand safe trains, the reinstatement of sacked driver Carl Campbell and an end to management bullying on the line.
Drivers on the Bakerloo Line are shocked and angry at management's sacking of Kevin Dobinson. Kevin was summarily dismissed last Thursday.