The attachment on this article details the management's attempt to drive custom away from ticket office windows and therefore do away with ticket office jobs. Euston, Paddington, Brixton, Victoria and Kings Cross are the latest stations which are trialling the five pounds minimum top up of oyster cards.

Clearly it is in managements plan to reduce the number of transactions at ticket office windows in order to justify job cuts. This will not only mean the destruction of existing jobs but will be a further block on the promotional prospects of CSA’s bearing in mind that LUL are not filling vacancies (over 150 unfilled jobs saving themselves over 4 million pounds per annum in wages).

We have already had to knock back a management proposal to advertise station supervisors jobs to holders of ticket office licences only .This of course makes nonsense of the management propaganda that all operational jobs are safe.

Meanwhile the fleet managers are preparing an all out assault on staffing levels by moving the goal posts in relation to maintenance of trains. This will be an attempt to reduce the frequency of maintenance in order to cut jobs and reduce their budget by 60 million in the next three years. Again these are all operational jobs

Yours sincerely

Steve Hedley
Regional Organiser