Blogs

Don't Let your Managers Break the Framework

Submitted by Jared on 6 September, 2016 - 14:32

We're hearing of more and more cases of rest days being changed in breach of the framework agreement and HGW being denied where it is due.

Please read and download the guide to working under FftF on this webpage.

A poster to download and display on union notice boards will be available soon showing the web address for the rmtlondoncaling.org.uk/stations area.

It pays to be in the RMT

Submitted by Eamonn Lynch on 5 September, 2016 - 20:01

Last Friday the RMT won a major victory when an Employment Tribunal at Watford ruled that one of our members had been unfairly dismissed after refusing to give a sample of hair during an alleged for cause DNA test. Member did not work for LUL but this result shows that employers have to be very careful about their actions whilst carrying out such tests and our local reps have to be extra vigilant to ensure that they are following the agreed process.

LU Imposes Transfer & Promotion Policy on Stations

Submitted by Jared on 2 September, 2016 - 12:39

Management have renaged on an agreement to negotiate a Transfer & Promotion policy (T&P).

They will now impose further displacements of members who are covering down or are over establishment.

RMT has insisted that members have some say, through a nomination process, about where they get sent to for their substantive roles.

Managemnet say that each move will be ordered according to what saves LU the most money.

Management intend to push ahead with an imposed policy even though there is no agreed appeals process for members who get displaced.

Latest from Company Council Sub Group (CCSG) Talks

Submitted by Jared on 24 August, 2016 - 10:18

Transfer & Promotion (T&P)

Following months of talks in which RMT has out the issue of avoiding multiole displacements following FftF, LU has finally issued a revised proposla that guarantees no-one will be displaced sideways. What this means is that anyone covering down one grade can only be displaced into their permanent substantive position. This removes the threat, contained in all of LU's T&P proposals until now, that members could be dislaced up to five times as LU shuffled us about to get rid of cover downs and over establishment positions.

National Shop Stewards Network -10th annual conference July 2

Submitted by Eamonn Lynch on 19 June, 2016 - 19:20

Unions are under threat. It’s no accident that the Tories announced their (anti) Trade Union Bill at the same time as they roll out yet more cuts. They fully understand that the unions, with 6 million members, can be a major obstacle to another austerity wave and the fight is on. Junior Doctors are striking and teachers are balloting against forced academies while steelworkers are increasingly calling for Tata to be nationalised.