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Further Incidents:
Less than 24 hours after talks broke down with LUL regarding Section 15 Possessions, there have been two further incidents underlining the warnings that the RMT gave that the whole process has casualised safe track access to such a point that serious injury or death was becoming inevitable.
LUL's stance that these possessions could continue and that their 'robust' response to previous incidents meant they did not feel the need to suspend Section 15 Possession. This reply is now shown to be a aspirational and this remains purely an example of cost cutting over safety.
We now know, as we warned at the meeting, two issues occurred last night that saw staff on the track with traction current on and in a further incident, staff on the track with a train master unaware they was there.
The reality is Section 15 is building human error into a process and then throwing in untrained staff into a cocktail that leaves safe working to luck and not process.
As a result of the two incidents, LUL have stated '... the initial response is for Maintenance work to be separated from possessions where CPD/AP occupy the same space forthwith. This initial response will be reviewed next Wednesday'. However, this does not detract that the whole process should have been suspended on Thursday and then both these instances would not have occurred. Nor does a temporary reprieve (for AP alone) leave time to address the entirety of the madness of Section 15 that we are facing
We stand firm that we want our members to be safe at work. Suspend Section 15 Possessions and enter detailed and safety first talks with our health and safety representatives
VOTE YES FOR SAFETY"SAY YES TO SAFETY ON THE TRACK SAY NO TO SECTION 15"
LU’s proposed cuts to safe working in possessions, we believe, will result in fatalities. We have already seen a near-miss involving a engineers train, staff left on the track unprotected and over runs where associated traction areas are being left on.
As a result and after trying to raise concerns with management numerous times; RMT is to ballot members in London Underground and Tube Lines Members who work on the track
The ballot papers are arriving NOW.
VOTE YES for both Strike Action
and Action Short of a Strike
RMT’s concerns about Section 15 are many and range from:
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Lack of and even no training for staff so they know how to implement and work safely in a Section 15 Possession
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Staff and trains being mixed in together with an inadequate safe system of work
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Ending tried and tested access through the Track Access Controllers
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Failure to complete consultation with the RMT prior to
implementation to avoid the obvious pit falls of this policy
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Ending a zero death culture and replacing it with an ill conceived and
rapidly implemented process based on saving money
The RMT will not let management play fast and loose with our members lives to save a few pounds.
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