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STAFFING LEVELS, REVENUE CONTROL INSPECTORS - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/5)
TERMS AND CONDITIONS, STATION STAFF - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)
REMINDER - Staff our Stations - Reps Campaigning Meeting - Thursday 16th January
Dear colleague,
As part of the Staff Our Stations campaign, the NEC has instructed me to arrange a high profile meeting of station staff reps including Tier 2 and Health and Safety reps and branches that represent station staff.
Violence and assaults against rail workers and members is soaring. Despite this, station staffing is under increasing attack from the private train companies which are attempting to close ticket offices and cut hours and staffing at stations.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS, STATION STAFF - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)
The following resolution was submitted for consideration to your National Executive Committee by both our Neasden Branch and the London Transport Regional Council:
“Neasden Branch notes the resolution passed by the LTRC calling for a combine-wide ballot of station grades over London Underground's failure to properly address the issue of workplace violence.
STATIONS AND REVENUE COUNCIL FUNCTIONAL COUNCIL (SFC) RMT REPS REPORT – 2019
Subject: TERMS AND CONDITIONS, STATION STAFF – LONDON UNDERGROUND
That we note the resolution from our Neasden Branch and that consultation has now occurred with branches in the London Transport Region who are fully supportive of a move to a ballot for industrial action in the forms of Strike Action & Actions Short of a Strike if the company does not come to terms with this union.
Violence against staff on LU stations is becoming a daily occurrence.
Lone working is not acceptable when our members face such high levels of risk of assault.
LU has refused to fill nearly 100 RCI posts and now management are talking about downgrading these jobs.
The running sore of CSA2 members being paid thousands of pounds less than others for doing the same job must be resolved.
Read the latest RMT News.
Subject: DISMISSAL, MEMBER, CSA, PICCADILLY CIRCUS AREA – LONDON UNDERGROUND
That we note the resolution and share the concerns of our Bakerloo Line Branch around the arbitrary discounting of evidence and severity of sanction in comparison to
similar cases.
We therefore instruct the General Secretary to pursue the following course of defensive actions should our member’s coming appeal not result in his reinstatement; in line with the resolution:
Update following our directors meeting regarding the District Line dispute:
We are deeply concerned and disappointed by what the company have offered us in response to the shocking rise in workplace violence which has forced us to take industrial action.
What they have offered us is a strategic and tactical mistake, which won’t solve the problem - in fact it will make it worse.
LU’s response in brief:
They will continue working with their crime reduction team to tackle the worst affected areas (they should be doing this already)
Please see the attached circular about the industrial action on District Line East, which begins at 00.01hrs Friday 27th September 2019
Joint statement from Tier 2 and SFC following our meeting with management today:
Tier 2 and S.F.C reps met today with Brian Woodhead and Senior BTP Officers. We put your concerns to them in no uncertain terms, including but not limited to:
- Access to trauma support
- The duty of care process
- Reliability of magnetic doors
- Ongoing issues raised in the
District East staffing dispute
- Lone working more generally
We told them you don’t feel safe, and we told them you don’t feel supported.