The Bakerloo Branch agreed the following resolution for the attention of the RMT's General Grades Committee:

"The Bakerloo Branch notes the disgraceful treatment of our members, formally employed by Trainpeople, by London Underground. Despite assurances to our General Secretary and members of our Stations Functional Council, our members’ treatment in the LU recruitment process has been scandalous. We note that at least two thirds of our members have been unsuccessful in the recruitment process despite many of them doing the job for 5 years. We believe that LU has rigged and abused the recruitment process to deny our members direct employment. The fact that 32 of our 33 members are black or are ethnic suggests that racism is a central factor in their treatment.

This branch believes that our members should be directly employed by LU, for both moral and legal reasons. We also believe that what management can get away with doing to one group of workers today, they will move on to unleash on other groups of workers tomorrow. Further, the use and abuse of agency staff is part and parcel of LUL’s moves to casualise our workforce at the expense of permanent, secure jobs. We therefore believe that this is an issue for all our London Underground members in all grades. The Bakerloo Branch believes that our members on all grades must be balloted for strike action to ensure justice for our colleagues. We demand that LUL end the use of agencies and offer permanent employment to agency staff who have worked on LUL assignments.
As part of that process the Bakerloo Branch calls on the national union and the LTRC to step up our campaign – we must organise across the combine to take our campaign to every station, every depot, and every location to ensure justice for our workmates.
We also request that our members receive payments from the national disputes fund.
The Bakerloo Branch reaffirms that an injury to one is an injury to all! We call on workers across the combine to rally behind the 33!"