Fund Transport for London

4,000 striking station and revenue control staff have shutdown London Underground in a show of strength to oppose pension attacks and job cuts.

Trains have remained in depots across the network and RMT activists are reporting huge attendances at picket lines despite heavy rain across the capital.

600 station staff jobs will be lost if TfL (Transport for London) plans go through and RMT members face huge detrimental changes to their pensions and working conditions.

If a Tube strike costs London £50m a day, then it would follow that we generate £18,250,000,000 a year - that's over 18 billion pound!

Watch Jared Wood, our National Executive Committee representative, discuss that and the importance of voting YES YES in our re-ballot.

TO ALL RMT LONDON UNDERGROUND MEMBERS

Our Ref: LUL/14/2

30th May 2022

Dear Colleagues,

DEFEND JOBS, PENSIONS AND AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND

Further to previous correspondence, you will shortly receive your ballot paper for the above dispute to keep our mandate for action live. I urge you to complete and return your ballot paper as soon as you receive it to demand that LUL agree to our demands and provide the three assurances and guarantees to protect your jobs, pensions and agreements.

24th of May 2022

DEFENDING JOBS, PENSIONS AND AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)

Further to my previous Circular IR/82/22, 29th March 2022, a meeting of Reps from all LUL functions took place where members' anger at LUL's attempts to impose massive cuts by undermining pensions, jobs and conditions was clearly expressed. The meeting committed to take further all grades strike action and the National Executive Committee has taken the decision to conduct a re-ballot of all LUL members on the same basis as before to ensure our mandate for action remains live.

Reel News has made this excellent video about the demo we held against cuts at TfL.

RMT London Transport Region activists demonstrated at the opening of the Elizabeth Line and explained what the cuts mean, and the effect that 600 jobs losses will have on workers and passengers alike.

25th of May 2022

DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOUR JOBS, PENSIONS & AGREEMENTS

PAPERS OUT TODAY - VOTE 'YES' TO BOTH QUESTIONS & RETURN YOUR BALLOT PAPER

DEFEND JOBS, PENSIONS AND AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND

You will have seen a bulletin from Andy Lord today asking you not to vote in this re-ballot.

It is absolutely vital that we get a big turnout and a big Yes vote on both questions to send a clear message to LUL that this dispute is not resolved as LUL has repeatedly failed to provide us with the three following simple demands:-

The attached poster highlights action which the RMT called in January 2022 and remains in place. You can also read the circular from 19th of January below.

The action called in January

19th January 2022

Dear Colleagues,

DEFEND JOBS, PENSIONS AND AGREEMENTS - LONDON UNDERGROUND (LUL/14/2)

4,000 station tube staff to walk out on June 6

Tube union RMT has criticised TfL for threatening 600 job losses on the network.

General Secretary Mick Lynch said:"TfL is trying to bulldoze through 600 job losses on London Underground and our members are not prepared to accept that.

"Station staff play a crucial role in serving the travelling public and were heroes during the 7/7 terrorist attacks.

TfLs latest funding deal will end on June 24th and London Underground plotting ways to make half a billion pounds of cuts.

Read the attached newsletter to see what RMT, the only union to have taken industrial action so far, is doing in response.