LUL’s ‘Stations Operating Model’ includes nearly 1,000 stations job cuts, and a complete change in every grade on stations.
For Duty Managers, this will mean:
- the end of our grades
- competing with graduates for any future roles
- effective demotion if you get into the new Supervisor grade (even if it does have manager in the title)
For admin staff, this will mean:
- yet more pressure to ensure coverage at stations with hardly any staff available to cover the duties
- more responsibility and workload with fewer resources
- the staff we work with becoming demoralised and overworked
Remember: You were promised Grade Progression, but hardly anybody progressed! Now your wages (and your pension) are under threat too.
Now we know why Mike Brown did not promise Duty Managers job security at ‘Fit for London’. Your reward for the Olympics, your job and benefits will go!
In the past, London Underground Ltd has looked to our grades to undermine trade union resistance to their job-cutting plans by working during strikes. This time, we must not do this. The whole future of the job is at stake – take sides with the Underground’s workforce, not with its overpaid Directors.