Starting in March 2009, RMT's industrial action campaign for decent pay, against job cuts, and to stop management persecuting staff and breaking their own policies
From Bob Crow, RMT General Secretary
The attached two posters show clearly how the pay offers from London Underground and Transport for London - of a measly 1.5% this year (with an even more measly 0.5% in following years) - will not cover the real rising cost of living. In other words, it is a pay cut.
As part of the RMT pay claim this year it was proposed that medical redeployment would mean that any member of staff who was for medical reasons unable to do their current job would be given at least one other job offer. Management have agreed to discuss this with us. The same proposals were forwarded by other unions. The only union that did not submit medical redeployment as part of their pay claim was ASLEF.
Please note that this document is London Underground's policy not RMT's! We publish it here for information, not because we endorse it!
A key part of this document is in Section 2: 2. Staff Who Take Industrial Action Shifts lost through official industrial action will NOT count under the Attendance at Work procedure. Staff covered by the industrial action who do not attend for work and who are not sick or on leave should be recorded on SAP, as appropriate, under the code for Industrial Action Official.
Below is a list of 2009 pay awards for train drivers. This information certainly puts LUL's measly 1.5% - and even worse, 0.5% next year - into perspective!
A notice giving this information is attached - please download and circulate to all drivers.
We need unity across all grades to win
RMT has called further strike action in our campaign to protect thousands of jobs, secure a proper pay rise for our members and end management bullying and harrassment.
Monday 10th August 2009
To: All London Transport Regional Council RMT Members.
Dear Colleagues,
Train Drivers Pay Awards
Our employers would have us believe that all other workers are having their pay cut or frozen, and so LUL and TfL's1.5% offer is generous by comparison. But have a look at these ...
As of July 2009, annual price inflation rates of particular products:
[government inflation figures]
In the year to June 2009, the prices of many essentials rose at a far higher rate than RPI inflation:
Catch up with whats happening in the region, regarding pay, pensions and jobs.. items that affect everyone including our members in the Neasden Branch.