News, reports and information for London Underground train drivers
Upfront is the regular newsletter for London Underground train drivers. Please download it and distribute it in your depot. In this edition: Unions In Unity - Time For a Good Deal Congratulations to members of all grades in all unions who took strike action last week. The support was outstanding, and the effect on the service devastating. We are now firmly in the driving seat as negotiations reopen.
Night Tube was first announced in October 2013 at the same time as London Underground bosses and Tory mayor Boris Johnson announced plans for massive cuts to the tube and the closure of every ticket office.
The RMT has held the position since day one that we are willing to discuss any increase in Tube services. In this official union decision in November 2013 we made our position clear:
RMT Willing To Discuss Any Extension To Tube Services Including All Night Running
In September 2014, the date that London Underground plan to launch Night Tube was announced, but still bosses hadn't agreed with the workers via their unions how it would be staffed.
Upfront is the newsletter for train drivers on London Underground. In this 'strike special' edition:
RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2015 and NIGHT RUNNING
LONDON UNDERGROUND
LUL's plans for new rosters to facilitate night tube rip up our hard earned agreements in a serial killing of our work life balance that Freddy Kruger would be proud of. These proposed rosters really are the stuff of nightmares…and the ones that LUL have shared so far are the “good ones”.
M DOOR ALARM PROCEDURES, JUBILEE LINE – LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/10)
The following resolution was received from our Jubilee South Branch:-
“This Branch is concerned that once again a new procedure has been introduced on the Jubilee Line which decreases safety checks in order to avoid disruption to the train service.
This newsletter is for train drivers at Stratford and North Greenwich.
RMT To Ballot Over Pay & Night Tube
The RMT has declared a dispute with LUL over pay and all-night running and is preparing to ballot for strike action.
An outrageous attempt to drive a coach and horses through existing procedures has been attempted by LUL managers who wish to impose new rosters on staff in the run up to the introduction of night tube operation on 12th September 2015.
The union is also placing the derisory pay offer from London Underground into dispute.
Bakerloo News is the newsletter for RMT members in the Bakerloo branch. In this edition:
RMT declares dispute over tube night running and derisory pay offer and prepares to ballot for action
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that it has declared a formal dispute with London Underground over an outrageous attempt to drive a coach and horses through existing procedures by attempting to impose new rosters on staff in the run up to the scheduled date for the introduction of night tube operation – 12th September 2015. The rosters would pin staff into a regime of anti-social hours and appalling working conditions.
This is the newsletter for London Underground train drivers based at North Greenwich and Stratford. In this edition: