Response to LUL Bulletin

LUL management have issued the following bulletin today. It is incredibly cheeky ...

RMT strike - latest The RMT leadership has now agreed to enter discussions with us on pay as part of a London Underground Company Council meeting tomorrow to which all our Unions have been invited. We welcome this change of heart and have always made clear that we’re ready to meet with the RMT anytime, anywhere. We remain committed to finding a fair resolution that means that our employees are not forced by the RMT leadership into a damaging and unnecessary strike that will only serve to lose our staff two days’ pay and cause harm to the Underground and its customers.

Firstly, RMT has never refused to take part in talks over this year's pay claim. By contrast, the union has consistently requested LUL to hold talks more frequently, and been met with stalling.

Secondly, there is no sense in which RMT's leadership is "forcing" members to strike. By contrast, it was RMT members who requested the union to organise this industrial action, and who "forced" the union to call a strike by voting 6-1 for action!

More to the point, LUL management has forced us to take action by offering a real-terms pay 5-year cut, threatening compulsory redundancies and allowing managers to persecute staff.