Bakerloo drivers' strike goes ahead from noon
Submitted by Admin on 21 February, 2020 - 11:24RMT strike action on Bakerloo Line goes ahead from lunchtime as LU and Mayor ignore union stress warnings
RMT strike action on Bakerloo Line goes ahead from lunchtime as LU and Mayor ignore union stress warnings
RMT strike action on Bakerloo Line goes ahead Friday as LU refuse serious talks
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that strike action on the Bakerloo line in a dispute over the impact on train drivers over unworkable timetable changes that place operators under intolerable levels of personal stress will go ahead as planned from lunchtime on Friday after tube bosses slammed the door on serious talks aimed at reaching a solution.
Please download the attached campaign leaflet. You could also print it out and distribute it in your workplace.
Our ballot returned a 95% majority for taking industrial action. At the heart of this dispute, and what most people believe to be the problem with our timetables, are the turnaround times in the North Sheds at Queen’s Park. These turnaround times have been cut to the bone over the past couple of years. The RMT have demanded that these are improved. This in turn would require moredrivers. This in turn would make our working day bearable.
London Underground has re-tendered the contract to provide catering services at staff canteens to Sodexo, until 2023. The contract tendering process included an explicit request from LU to deliver “efficiency savings”. This means: job cuts.
Sodexo plans to cut a number of jobs across the contract, at every location, equivalent to 18 full-time positions. RMT opposes these cuts. We are fighting to ensure no Sodexo worker loses their job, has their hours cut, or loses any money.
RMT LT Retired Branch meets at Unity House on the following dates:
After two meetings with senior Bakerloo managers and
three meetings at the Arbitration and Conciliation Service
(Acas), we are no further forward in our efforts to resolve
our dispute with LU over our shambles of a timetable.
RMT’s 26th annual Black & Ethnic Minority Members’ Conference will be taking place in the city of Liverpool, the oldest black community in Europe, with some black families in the city able to trace their roots back up to ten generations.
RMT National Black & Ethnic Members’ Advisory Committee have specially commissioned logo’d T-shirts to be allocated to delegates at their 2020 conference taking place at Liverpool’s Hilton city centre 24 & 25 March.
To order your t-shirt, please email the Black & Ethnic Members’ Chair Glen Hart glenharttusc@gmail.com with your name, branch and t-shirt size.
Get details on the conference here
Solidarity.