Transport for London

TUBE AND TfL union RMT today slammed confirmation from Mayor Boris Johnson that tube fares will increase by 3.9% from next year and bus fares by over 12% as “dire news in the middle of a recession which will be deeply damaging to passenger numbers and revenue income.”

In further bad news for public transport in the capital, TfL's business plan, to be considered by TfL's board next week, includes the deferral by three years of all remaining station renewals which were to have been completed by the failed private Tube maintenance company Metronet.

This is an extract of RMT's Official circular regarding LUL - IR/296/09 dated 9th October 2009.

You may be aware that for a number of years LUL and its predecessors have had the right to participate in the Annual Remembrance Parade at the Cenotaph. The TFL contingent is made up of past and present employees.

This is an extract of RMT's Official circular regarding LUL from Bob Crow- IR/296/09 dated 9th October 2009.

The General Grades Committee also this week considered the outstanding pay claim for TfL members

Circular No. IR.275/09: RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2009, REDUNDANCIES AND BREACH OF AGREEMENTS - LUL and TfL

At a meeting of the LUL Company Council last week, the company’s pay offer was further discussed. There was no further movement by the employer and so their offer still stands as follows:

Year 1: 1.5% increase from 1st April 2009 Year 2: February 2010 RPI + 0.5% or 0.5% whichever is the greater from 1st April 2010

Dear colleagues,

LUL - TfL - Alstom - Cubic - bus workers

LUL Pay

I attended the LUL company council meeting on the 08/9/09 and discussed the pay offer. There was no improvement whatsoever on the last offer. It remains 1.5 percent this year and RPI plus 0.5 percent next year. LUL are prepared to release our reps for a meeting and I am requesting Tuesday 6th October 2009 (one day after the ASLEF reps are released) to take a sounding on where we go.

A summary of where we currently stand with the jobs/pay/justice dispute:

• RMT is calling no more strikes for the time being.
• Our disputes with LUL and TfL are still 'live' ie. not resolved.
• The Regional Council's strike committee continues to meet and organise.
• No RMT member will be made compulsorily redundant in the current LUL job-cut process.
• LUL accepts that it has a 'no compulsory redundancy' agreement, but insists that this only applies to operational staff even though it clearly states that it applies to "all employees".

Please see below an advertisement for a managerial position in Transport for London for the princely sum of £500 per day. Hands up who still thinks 1.5% (then even worse in the following years) is a "reasonable" pay rise for the rest of us mere mortals ...

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.