RMT General Grades Committee decision:

That we note the correspondence from Gerry Duffy, London Underground Employee Relations Director, dated 15 June 2011. We further note that at the Company Council meeting on 14 April, RMT tabled the issue of LU’s withdrawal of uniform cleaning vouchers, and management stated that should we wish to have the vouchers restored, the company would restore them. Following GGC decision G576 of 11 May 2011, we wrote to LU advising that we wish the vouchers to be restored as soon as possible. We are therefore disappointed that Mr Duffy has now written to us, after some delay, advising that rather than restore the vouchers immediately, he intends to convene a meeting of the Uniform Sub-Committee to discuss this matter further.

We note that our Regional Organiser has submitted this as an agenda item for the next meeting of the Company Council on 13 July, and hope that LU management will confirm at that meeting that the vouchers are to be restored. A report of the outcome of this is to be placed in front of us.

We note also that the letter from Mr Duffy refers to a meeting of the Uniform Sub-Committee at which RMT was not represented. We instruct the General Secretary to report to us on why this happened and how RMT’s representation on this Committee is organised.