Bring Tube Contracts Back In House

Since the 1980s, various parts of London Underground have been hived off to the private sector, leading to pay cuts, job losses, worse services and more bureaucracy. The failures of these privatisations – and RMT campaigning – have led to some of these sections returning to public ownership:

  • Metronet collapsed in 2007 and became part of LUL again in 2008
  • Tube Lines was bought by TfL in 2010
  • Tube Lines has taken train maintenance at Stratford Market Depot away from Alstom and back in-house
  • In August 2012, London Underground cancelled the Power PFI and will bring power supply back in-house in August 2013
IN NUMBERS:
  • £455m cost of setting up the PPP
  • £3.3bn paid by LUL to Infracos in Infrastructure Service Charge in the first three years of PPP
  • £1m approximate weekly profit made from PPP by private Infracos
  • £1.7bn debt inherited by public sector from Metronet when it collapsed
  • £310m spent by TfL to buy Tube Lines in 2010

Now we want Tube Lines to be fully reintegrated into LU and the rest of the privatised sections brought back into London Underground: cleaning, catering, ticket machine maintenance, engineering contracts,


Read more about how the London Transport region of the RMT is fighting all job cuts in all grades here

Northern Line train maintenance, recruitment, and more.

We want agencies kicked off the Tube, with their staff given permanent LU jobs. And we want new lines and projects to be carried out by a new TfL Major Works Department of directly-employed staff.