News, reports and information for RMT members who work for London Underground Ltd
TfL have finally listed ticket fares on their website.
If London Underground has it's way, customers will be left to figure out how much money they need to put on their Oyster Cards at ticket machines.
World class service from a world class ticket machine? Not when there are no staff to refill the machine there isn't.
TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that it has set a deadline of 5pm on Thursday 25th March 2010 for London Underground to withdraw the threat of axing 800 staff and closing ticket offices or the union will declare a dispute and ballot for strike action and action short of a strike.
RMT also warned today that London Underground are already running stations unstaffed or “babysat” with just one member of staff.
Across The Tracks has published a poster warning that the job cuts at LUL won't stop at 800.
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Both London Underground and Tube Lines - and, no doubt, many other companies - will tell us that they "have to" cut jobs because of the economic crisis. But a look at London Underground's history shows that this is not just untrue - it is the opposite of the truth.
London Underground began in 1863, when private companies starting opening lines. By the 1920s, the Underground had expanded into a web of lines beneath London, run by several different private companies.
TUBE UNION RMT today pledged an all out fight over the threat to safety, jobs and working conditions from cuts plans announced by Transport for London and expected attacks being worked up by contractor Tube Lines as they look to slash £1.3 billion from the tube upgrade budget.
RMT's executive passed a motion last night condemning the cynical attempt by TfL to smuggle out their threat to axe 800 jobs in ticket offices and on platforms.
The following resolution, submitted by Hammersmith & City and Jubilee & East London Line branches, was carried at the March meeting of the Regional Council.
This Regional Council opposes the decision made by the General Grades Committee to accept the new LUL Grievance Procedure.
This was done without consultation with either local representatives or branches.
We cannot understand why this matter was hurried through the GGC when the implementation date was 1st April 2010.
TUBE UNION RMT today demanded that London Mayor Boris Johnson take “urgent and decisive” action to terminate the Tube Lines contract on London Underground as it emerged that LU are calling in forensic accountants to “examine massive and secretive payments to Tube Lines’ shareholders” and after the company were branded as “ailing and failing” by TfL.
Newsletter 'Across The Tracks' have obtained an internal LUL document revealing plans to cut minimum staff levels at stations across LUL.
The Newsletter contains the following:
See ATT's website for more information or read the full story to view the newsletter, or download it.
The February newsletter for Stratford No 1 Branch.
No reader of Monthly News will be surprised to hear that since our strike in June 2009, there have been at least five more wrong-side door openings (WSDOs) with management trying to hush them up and rightly not referring any of the staff involved to disciplinary action. Management know that these incidents have only happened because of their failure to provide the safety device used on all other stock on all other lines - Correct Side Door Enabler (CSDE). No one has been sent to a disciplinary hearing, that is, except the person most unlikely to have been sent to one.