The RMT has agreed to suspend the Bakerloo detrainment action with immediate effect. The full decision is below:

"We note our Regional Organiser’s report, the proposals from London Underground Ltd, and the views of our representatives.

We also note the letter from London Underground Ltd, which falsely claims that its contents have been agreed by RMT. We deplore LUL’s disregard for the safety of staff and passengers from the point at which the company first imposed its ‘flash and dash’ detrainment policy. We note that management is introducing a new procedure under which trains will be physically checked and confirmed as empty before they go into depots or sidings. We welcome this progress, which is the result of determined action by Bakerloo line drivers backed up by an active campaign of protests. However, we still have several serious concerns:

1. that checking that a carriage is empty through the windows carries a higher risk of not noticing a passenger remaining on the train than viewing from inside the carriage;

2. the use of the butterfly cock to open and close doors as a matter of procedure may be inappropriate;

3. the term ‘uniformed (where appropriate) and licensed staff’ in LUL’s letter suggests a possible intention to use non-uniformed staff eg. ICSAs;

4. being trapped in a train prior to release may be distressing for passengers, and that distress may lead to verbal or physical assault of our members;

5. there is no indication that the lost station staff jobs will be restored in order to carry out this procedure.

We therefore do not accept the new procedure as a settlement of this matter, and remain in dispute with LUL. However, noting that our representatives wish the action to be suspended, and that the new procedure renders our current industrial action unnecessary, we therefore suspend it with immediate effect.

We remind our drivers that ICSAs are not ‘appropriately licensed’ for this work and therefore that should an ICSA rather than uniformed staff be on the platform, the driver is to manually detrain in line with the new procedure. We remind our station staff members that we have ongoing industrial action to refuse to deploy ICSAs on platforms or elsewhere on the ‘paid’ side of the barrier.

We instruct the General Secretary to arrange meetings of our Bakerloo line members of all grades to discuss our strategy in pursuit of this ongoing dispute and to place a report of these meetings in front of us.

We further note our representatives’ disappointment at an apparent reduction in ASLEF’s co-operation with RMT on this matter, and affirm that we are an independent union that seeks unity where possible but decides own policies and strategies.

Finally, we note the ongoing persecution of Brother Jayesh Patel, and affirm that we will not settle this dispute while management hold one of our activists hostage."